Why are we free artists so interested in the doctrines of modern architecture? Because we are excluded from them and because within the present society they deprive us of our raison d’être. Asger Jorn, Pour la forme
We do not recognize the existence of architecture … Cologne Cathedral is nothing but an empty magic sculpture, whose aim is purely psychological—just like a glass of beer is architecture. Asger Jorn
In all previous periods architectural innovations were designed exclusively for the ruling classes. Now for the first time a new architecture has been designed specifically for the poor. Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §173
Architecture must advance by taking emotionally moving situations, rather than emotionally moving forms, as the material it works with. And the experiments
conducted with this material will lead to new, as yet unknown forms. Guy Debord,Rapport sur la construction des situations
It is necessary to transform architecture to accord with the whole development
of the society, criticizing all the transitory values linked to condemned
forms of social relationships (in the first rank of which is the family). Internationale situationniste #3
Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space,
of modulating reality, of engendering dreams. Ivan Chtcheglov, Formulaire pour un urbanisme nouveau
Architecture is always the ultimate achievement of intellectual and artistic evolution, the
materialization of an economic stage. Architecture is the final point in the achievement of any artistic endeavor because the creation of architecture implies the construction of
an environment and the establishment of a way of life. Potlatch #15