Business/Man

“Mankind torn by eternal dilemmas, the impasse of seemingly endless debates, has launched a new language that straddles unbridgeable divides like a fragile designers footbridge … coined a new proactive wave of new oxymorons to suspend former incompatibility: life/style, reality/TV,  world/music, museum/store, food/court, health/care, waiting/lounge.”

Junkspace is incompatible space used and designed by an economic market. Business creates junkspace because business is interlocked with consumerism, economic driven changes and individual prosperity. Space has gone away from design and into the overdesigned, the over marketed, and the over represented. “Junkspace thrives on design, but design dies in junkspace”. Space is designed as a business storefront, and not for man to gain from, but instead to get something out of man. Junkspace ‘splinters’ public non-spaces into pre-determined and pre-defined spaces that we no longer need to interpret for ourselves because that has been done for us. The problem is that we design for the purse, not for the person buying the purse. The consequence is that we lose the sense of all space and it just becomes another zone that we will never remember, because junk-zones cannot be remembered.  “We are not leaving pyramids”, but instead we are leaving zones, and these temporary zones were not made to be called architecture, they were created and automatically called by its function (mall, school, office). So who should we design for, the business or the man?

Prada Marfa- Marfa,Texas - sculpture by Elmgreen and Dragset

Storefront for Art and Architecture - New York - Steven Holl