PoMi CATALOGUE: 'TOWARDS A GENTRIFIED ARCHITECTURE' |
Monuments and Public Spaces
Genteel Architects in Absolutely Gentrified Countries of the Next Century according to the Pomi Catalogue
...The total abandonment of conservation of the city. Through the representation of monumentalism on three points, living spaces are made into a new hierarchy according to their elevation from the ground within an obviously fascistic landscape. The presentation of real estate form in the style of military colonisation. The continuing devaluation of the majority of traditionalist shapes by their contribution to work fetishism. New architectural games invented by the system to endear ready forms. The invention of new gigantic panoptics of miscellaneous shapes for mass production. Opening the topic of slavery to market it anew as a fantasy drain. The mass sale of employees. The synthetic production of lifestyles to make them marketable. The production of a kind of computer game with all the animate and inanimate components of the city. The homogenisation of all architectural languages on the basis of price. The marketing of ‘concept’ or theme town designs claimed to be the design of famous people of previous years. Also, the sale of Brave New World as a theme town. The establishment of child exploitation in the context of a new genetics project. Substance addiction as a topic for tourism in foreign countries invented as the environment for a social experiment. The invention and marketing by god of new simulated paradises. The transformation of giving and receiving pain as citywide entertainment. Also, the revival of the legitimate use of weapons as a basic means. The allocation of space for the independent functioning of industries making use of bodies ‘in every sense’. The invention of a destruction fantasy as a place for the sale of production errors...