{"id":656,"date":"2009-08-24T13:37:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T19:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=656"},"modified":"2010-05-18T12:13:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:13:38","slug":"rory-hyde-on-unsolicited-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/rory-hyde-on-unsolicited-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"rory hyde on unsolicited architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory Hyde (who is working for Volume) <a href=\"http:\/\/roryhyde.com\/blog\/?p=294\">comments on<\/a> the &#8220;Office for Unsolicited Architecture&#8221; from Volume 14, which <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/on-finance\/\">Stephen<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/puns-endorsable-and-not\/\">I<\/a> have both tangentially touched on in the past:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he role of reality in the production of an unsolicited project&#8230; is arguably what separates unsolicited architecture from so-called speculative or paper architecture. While Archigram\u2019s visions of a walking city may have addressed a social need \u2013 for free and undetermined public event space \u2013 without financing or marketing, it comes across as entertainment. Which is of course, what it was intended to be, to the extent that it was even presented in comic book form. Which is also not to say that entertainment cannot inspire a real project, but that the strength of the unsolicited rests in its very tangible potential to be pursued through to realisation with the right political, financial and public support in place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/roryhyde.com\/blog\/?p=294\">the rest of the (excellent) post<\/a>, which includes several examples of unsolicited architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rory Hyde (who is working for Volume) comments on the &#8220;Office for Unsolicited Architecture&#8221; from Volume 14, which Stephen and I have both tangentially touched on in the past: [T]he role of reality in the production of an unsolicited project&#8230; is arguably what separates unsolicited architecture from so-called speculative or paper architecture. While Archigram\u2019s visions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,104,397],"tags":[179],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-asides","category-finance","category-the-expanded-field","tag-unsolicited-architecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2687,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}