Mute Icons: Concept

Essay, expanding design practices, Mute Icons, No Density, P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, Politics and economics

Architecture, Architecture’s challenge, Architecture&art, Communication, Cultural agitator, Denial of the context, Essay, Globalization, History, Icon, Iconic architecture, Mute icon, Society, Speculation, Utopian practices

This essay is an excerpt from Mute Icons by Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich from P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, published by Actar Publishers.

Mute Icons is, at its core, a book that interrogates images: historical, contemporary, and — more importantly — speculative. This examination concentrates on the increasingly dichotomic state of architectural practice, discourse, and contemporary culture at large. Through the analysis of images that exist and some that we propose, we aim to develop a language and a sensibility for discovering simultaneous, contradictory, and even unexpected readings of images in architecture.