PUNK'S PROGRESS

摘要

At first sight, any relation between the work of Norwegian architects Geir Brendeland and Olav Kristoffersen and the punk movement of the 1970s seems far-fetched. Still, through their relentlessly discursive practice and focus on real social problems, the partners are invoking many of its themes. On the surface, Brendeland & Kristoffersen Arkitektur's material finesse, careful detailing, and spatial articulation defy formal connections to the disheveled aesthetic of the renegade movement. Yet, without adopting punk's adolescent expression, the architects have reworked and synthesized its ideological strategies of participation.