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THE DESTINATION of MONACO

by Suzanne Belaieff

In the light of its culture, enhance contemporary life, life structured by be set aside in favour of a professional and
YES, Architecture is in a state of crisis once respect for the past, the link with the present, creative approach.
again... with the future as it has been set out, or a
It has forgotten the Quality of Life, the beautiful future. NO, we cannot separate meaning and structure,
environment, its participation in the Urban formalism is culturally meaningless.
Fabric, and above all its contribution to mankind. YES, we need sunlight to gaze at the sea and Indeed, there is no structure without meaning,
Its aesthetics contribute greatly to the current to shield the blue sky; architecture and urban perception is of the body as well as the
difficulties in human development. design must participate actively, the design of the mind. Moreover, art is necessarily a personal
URBAN FABRIC being of the utmost importance. expression, but cannot be a simple matter of
YES, we need to reconvey all insight through OUR FUTURE IS AT STAKE. the decoration of technical structures and the
architecture as it is remembered: All things in nature have a configuration, that semantic dimension of meaning cannot be
Because where we could have built by focusing is to say a form, an external appearance which forgotten.
on ecological and landscape architecture, reveals to us what they are, which distinguishes
building continues in concrete, steel and glass them from ourselves and from each other. Also, the mission of the architect is poetic, it
despite the cost of energy and the collateral Form always follows function. has an individual task, the personal expression
damage, which demonstrates how we surrender We must be ready in terms of constraints to of which gives reference to everything, made of
to the economy. receive those of the environment. dreams and myths; the best revelations happen
We can restructure our buildings so that they Self interest, personal financial interests must when reality is captured through metaphor, and
architecture cannot
renounce its origins
in intuition.
Architecture is very
poetic, of perfect
order “but it transmits
by metaphor a vision
of the World and of
Being.”
- 1983 by Massachu-
setts Institute of
Technology -
“It is in each individual
that the cultural notion
takes on meaning”
and each individual
could be defined
as an original and
unique synthesis of
the Cultures of the
World.
We can then say that
we are on the royal
path which leads to an
art form that is natural
and satisfactory, to
architecture which will
soon become one of
the fine arts in the true
sense and the best
© depositphotos/VERSUSstudio term for an art form
which will live because
it will be of the people,
for and by the people.

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