The Thrown Project: Architecture and War
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This paper examines the concept of the project through a tragic but significant example, namely Albert Speer’s project. Speer, like any architect worthy of the name, does not drop his designs from some hyperuranium of creativity, nor does he confine them to a drawing board for the benefit not of the inhabitants, but of the readers; and even more, unlike a machine, he does not merely execute the prescriptions of an al-gorithm. It is, on the contrary, rooted in a soil. By defending himself, by digging a hole of words, by invoking devices and programmes, by hiding behind a Diktat, Speer opens up a path that will be beaten after him, that, to express himself with Heidegger, of the “thrown project,”, of the fact that all our designing is nothing but the execution of a Message from the Emperor, the submission to the injunctions of technology. But the proj-ect, if it is a project, is lagging behind the programme, and conversely a programme that is not lagging behind (the laws of nature or tra...ins when it goes well) is not a project. The project has a constitutive delay, it al-ways has a delay, and that is why it is the delay, it does not have a delay.
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philosophy of architecture / project / programme / delay / Albert SpeerSource:
Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy, 2023, 1, 2Publisher:
- Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
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IFDTTY - JOUR AU - Ferraris, Maurizio PY - 2023 UR - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/3060 AB - This paper examines the concept of the project through a tragic but significant example, namely Albert Speer’s project. Speer, like any architect worthy of the name, does not drop his designs from some hyperuranium of creativity, nor does he confine them to a drawing board for the benefit not of the inhabitants, but of the readers; and even more, unlike a machine, he does not merely execute the prescriptions of an al-gorithm. It is, on the contrary, rooted in a soil. By defending himself, by digging a hole of words, by invoking devices and programmes, by hiding behind a Diktat, Speer opens up a path that will be beaten after him, that, to express himself with Heidegger, of the “thrown project,”, of the fact that all our designing is nothing but the execution of a Message from the Emperor, the submission to the injunctions of technology. But the proj-ect, if it is a project, is lagging behind the programme, and conversely a programme that is not lagging behind (the laws of nature or trains when it goes well) is not a project. The project has a constitutive delay, it al-ways has a delay, and that is why it is the delay, it does not have a delay. PB - Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju T2 - Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy T1 - The Thrown Project: Architecture and War IS - 2 VL - 1 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3060 ER -
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Ferraris, M.. (2023). The Thrown Project: Architecture and War. in Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju., 1(2). https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3060
Ferraris M. The Thrown Project: Architecture and War. in Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy. 2023;1(2). https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3060 .
Ferraris, Maurizio, "The Thrown Project: Architecture and War" in Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy, 1, no. 2 (2023), https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3060 .