¶ Invisible Architecture
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RBF Definitions
"Musical instrument and electronic circuitry making are arts themselves but they are not music. Neither the lion’s feet on the piano legs of yesterday nor the angels head on the harp have naught to do with music. Any overall sculptural shaping of buildings by self-professed and legally established modern ‘architects’ is ‘frozen styling’ but it is not architecture.
“I feel that the new architectural era is one in which world society is to be furnished with dwelling, working, and other environment-controlling instruments invented by other artists, produced by tools and processes invented and composed by other anonymous artists and that the ‘aesthetics’ will no longer be commodities to be purchased, vicariously commanded or lured forth, from captive artists. Ancient Pharaohs, kings or nobles, as patrons of the frozen music’s architectural era, were often ruthless, gross, selfish individuals who with lethal authority could command the artist to design buildings which deceived the public by suggesting that the overlord was what he was not. What inspires the __ emerging architect of today is the task of producing invisible-as-possible environment-controlling instruments for all humanity, conceived”
¶ Citations
- SET X, pp.3-4, Aug’72
