Issue #15 Farewell to Function: Tactical Interiors

Farewell to Function: Tactical Interiors

Gean Moreno

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Issue #15
April 2010










Notes
1

China Miéville, The City & The City (New York: Del Rey, 2009), 22.

2

Tobias Rehberger in “Does Venice still matter? Matthew Slotover, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tobias Rehberger and others on the Biennale,” The Art Newspaper, May 29, 2009 (emphasis added), .

3

Tomas Maldonado, “Diseño Industrial, Presente y Futuro,” in Es la Arquitectura un Texto? y otros escritos (Buenos Aires: Ediciones Infinito, 2004), 95. Author’s translation.

4

Andrea Branzi, “Radical Architecture,” in Andrea Branzi: The Complete Works (London: Thames & Hudson, 1992), 38.

5

Andrea Branzi, “A Homeless Country: Experimental Models for the Domestic Space,” in Italy: Contemporary Domestic Landscapes 1945–2000, ed. Giampiero Bosoni (Milan: Skira, 2001), 157.

6

For this notion of moving from the sphere of production (with the factory as a governing metaphor) to the sphere of reception, see Herbert Muschamp’s “Reception Rooms,” in The Work of Ettore Sottsass and Associates, ed. Milco Carboni (New York: Universe Publishing, 1999).

7

See Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, vol. 1, trans. Steven Rendell (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984).

The tactical interiors thesis was generated through collaborative research, experiments, and conversations undertaken with Ernesto Oroza.