MArch Architecture Unit 12 The Bartlett School of Architecture 2014 12.14 Fig. 12.14 Daniel Wilkinson Y5, ‘The Courthouse of the 23rd Baroque’. This project speculates on Eugenio D’Ors’ idea that the Baroque isn’t a finite period in art history, but a recurrent disruptive artistic and political social cycle. Situated in the abandoned economic wastelands outside of Stewartby, the Court acts as the starting point for a new city which aesthetically turns away from the efficiencies and banalities of the structural celebrations which have dominated architecture for over a century. Acting as a landmark for its own logic, the Court structurally obscures itself through an ornamental irruption.
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