Kenneth FRAMPTON - 2018

The hybrid aesthetic character of this approach as it variously developed is confirmed by the running gloss that accompanies, project by project, this collection of the work of Isabelle Richard and Frederic Schoeller.  Thus, we encounter a quote from Kandinsky’s Concerning the Spiritual in Art of 1911 to the effect that the spiritual comprises a movement that may be expressed by the simple formula of forwards and upwards.  Elsewhere they will characterize this serial, ascending movement, as it applies to architecture, as an intentional direction in which a collective spirit finds itself embodied in an unprecedented unity made out of disparate parts.  Later, they will argue, after Malevich, that architecture derives from the interaction of static and dynamic forces and that the image of work arises out of this conjunction. and suflexibility