Architecture only survives where it negates the form that society expects of it. Where it negates itself by transgressing the limits that history has set for it.
Bernanrd Tschumi
What lies beyond the limits of architecture? Besides the keystones of the Modernist architectural ideology: hierarchy, purity, functionalism and formalism, the answer also is society. Bernard Tschumi (French - Swiss architect) believes, architecture seems to survive where it transcends its paradoxical nature by negating the form that society expects of it. The starting point for me, in order to look into the ideological work of Tschumi, was the notion of sickness whenever entering an establishment where refreshments or meals are served to paying guests (restaurants)(Britannica Concise Encyclopedia). It is not the fact of being inside such places that makes me sick to my stomach, is the actual action of public eating. There is always a choice of not going into such spaces but because it is part of today's (and not just today's) culture of socialising it is almost unavoidable. The act of pleasure is in many cases a taboo. Hedonism and eroticism is singly connected indoors and considered to be private. Anything open to the public to see is considered violent or out of order. Why is it then that certain needs and human functions are done and sociably accepted in public? Why when one eating alone consists of a freak?
So who determines the space and therefore architecture itself? Who is ready to break boundaries? Maybe though by breaking boundaries that already exist, new boundaries can be invented. A new social behaviour catalogue.
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