"Tijekom mnogih generacija proglašavan je dekadentnim svaki arhitekt koji je namjeravao ili pokušao iskusiti užitak u arhitekturi”, kaže Bernard Tschumi u svojem eseju “Užitak arhitekture”. Činjenica je da se kroz gotovo cijeli arhitektonski diskurs i teoriju arhitekture od Vitruvija do modernizma provlači ideja o nemogućnosti ili nemoralnosti arhitekture bez funkcionalnog ili oblikovnog/estetskog opravdanja. Arhitektura Willa Alsopa je upravo i prije svega arhitektura užitka u arhitekturi. Kad bismo teoriju arhitekture kroz povijest mogli pratiti kroz razradu pravila koja je ona postavljala, onda zavodljivost i užitak Alsopove arhitekture leži u njenom kršenju. Igra arhitekture je komplicirano poigravanje s pravilima koja mogu biti prihvaćena ili odbačena, a što su ta ograničenja brojnija i sofisticiranija, to je užitak kršenja veći
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During many generations, each architect who intended or tried to enjoy the pleasure in architecture was labeled as decadent. – says Tschumi in his essay Pleasure of architecture. It is a fact that in almost the entire discourse on architecture and the theory of architecture, from Vitruvius to Modernism, we can find the idea of the impossibility or immorality of architecture without any functional or formal / aesthetic justification. The architecture of Will Alsop, though, is primarily the architecture of the enjoyment of architecture. If we look at the theory of architecture through history as the development of the principles it has set, then the allure and the pleasure of Alsop’s architecture lies in breaking them. The game of architecture is a complicated toying with rules that can be either accepted or rejected and the more numerous and sophisticated the limitations, the greater the pleasure in breaking them
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