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Is the story of the perpetuum mobile. Architecture of the ideal is exposed to the meat grinder of negotiation, failure and changing expectations, notorious translations, adaptation: in short, the impossibility to stand still. The mobile sections of the city demand what: compliance. Flexibility means to bend, to reinvent, negate, the architect wakes up as a renegade. Dinosaurs died out, some say because they couldn’t or wouldn’t adapt. What if they just decided to retire to museums where they don’t have to corrupt themselves? To seek this last resort of immunity I propose to all who at this day still narcissistically are caught up in rendering their ideal containers and to clear the stage for the new mutant and mutating. Its time to formalize the architecture of becoming (werden) – overcoming the chains and containers of the narcissistic architecture of being (sein): realizing the architecture of Spinoza and Heraclitus, of life and death, of oxidation and patina, the visions of the futurists: grafting on the currents, tides and motion as the source of all organic and cosmic life, the architecture of the surf and the wave.
2003