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A House for Friedrich Nietzsche
Organizers
ICARCH Gallery
www.icarch.us
Competition assignment
Friedrich Nietzsche was born 175 years ago. The philosophers, as we know, very rarely used to hammer in their theoretical activities. But Friedrich Nietzsche did. How would it be to make a house with the hammer? Not literally, but conceptually. Yes, very probably any building cannot avoid the hammer, in its being built. But how would it be to use the hammer, metaphorically, from the very first sketch? Would this be a true feral architecture?
Minimalism quite often avoided the hammer, in this sense. It was not wild, it was not rough, it was not brutal, although, of course, essentially extreme reductions could be, in their essence, brutal. But brutalism itself seems to “come back”, at least as nostalgia.
Is this nostalgia nothing else but a nostalgia for truth? And a rejection of anything pretty, anything sweet, anything too subtle, anything sleek? Yes, quite possible. So the hammer philosophy would encourage, then, the roughness of truth. Are we ready for it?
Let us ask this question: how many Nietzschean architects were / are there? Le Corbusier comes to mind. But how many others? Not too many… Nietzsche was uncomfortable even for those “manly artists” architects usually are. Yet Nietzsche, despite his apparent “masculinism”, was feminine as well… much more, perhaps, than one might think. And „the eternal return of the same“ could legitimize this statement.
We ask you to design A HOUSE FOR FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE.
That is, for the philosopher who hammered philosophy, but who, as a child, grew up surrounded just by women. A paradox? Maybe… Zarathustra comes to mind… that disillusioned overman who, willing to perish, extended his life. Perish, dear architect, perish! And be reborn through this perishing. Do not hesitate to die, together with your building, since only by dying you can endure.
„Die before you die“ was the commandment of the very religion Nietzsche fought against (and maybe other religions). Yet, paradoxically again, attacked and attacker do meet, sometimes, when the least expected.
Make a house so very fragile that, at the point of disappearing, it gains eternal life.
Make a house so very brutal that, at the peak of its brutality, it becomes suave.
Design A HOUSE FOR FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE.
And do not hesitate to laugh crying, or to cry laughing.
Competition type
Open ideas competition
Admission area
International
Participants
Architects, designers, artists, students
Schedule
Submission deadline: December 31, 2019
More information and details at
www.icarch.us
Organizers
ICARCH Gallery
www.icarch.us
Competition assignment
Friedrich Nietzsche was born 175 years ago. The philosophers, as we know, very rarely used to hammer in their theoretical activities. But Friedrich Nietzsche did. How would it be to make a house with the hammer? Not literally, but conceptually. Yes, very probably any building cannot avoid the hammer, in its being built. But how would it be to use the hammer, metaphorically, from the very first sketch? Would this be a true feral architecture?
Minimalism quite often avoided the hammer, in this sense. It was not wild, it was not rough, it was not brutal, although, of course, essentially extreme reductions could be, in their essence, brutal. But brutalism itself seems to “come back”, at least as nostalgia.
Is this nostalgia nothing else but a nostalgia for truth? And a rejection of anything pretty, anything sweet, anything too subtle, anything sleek? Yes, quite possible. So the hammer philosophy would encourage, then, the roughness of truth. Are we ready for it?
Let us ask this question: how many Nietzschean architects were / are there? Le Corbusier comes to mind. But how many others? Not too many… Nietzsche was uncomfortable even for those “manly artists” architects usually are. Yet Nietzsche, despite his apparent “masculinism”, was feminine as well… much more, perhaps, than one might think. And „the eternal return of the same“ could legitimize this statement.
We ask you to design A HOUSE FOR FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE.
That is, for the philosopher who hammered philosophy, but who, as a child, grew up surrounded just by women. A paradox? Maybe… Zarathustra comes to mind… that disillusioned overman who, willing to perish, extended his life. Perish, dear architect, perish! And be reborn through this perishing. Do not hesitate to die, together with your building, since only by dying you can endure.
„Die before you die“ was the commandment of the very religion Nietzsche fought against (and maybe other religions). Yet, paradoxically again, attacked and attacker do meet, sometimes, when the least expected.
Make a house so very fragile that, at the point of disappearing, it gains eternal life.
Make a house so very brutal that, at the peak of its brutality, it becomes suave.
Design A HOUSE FOR FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE.
And do not hesitate to laugh crying, or to cry laughing.
Competition type
Open ideas competition
Admission area
International
Participants
Architects, designers, artists, students
Schedule
Submission deadline: December 31, 2019
More information and details at
www.icarch.us
