Slobodan Maldini

Vision, Passion, Art and Architecture Slobodan Maldini

This book is almost surreal collage of world famous multimedia and cultural artifacts, events, billboards, architectural facilities, historical facts, newspaper articles, essays and photos. It is about visions in architecture, passion and morality, punk and punkish in art and architecture. This book itself is specific work of art and architecture made in the vocabulary of unconventional and shocking artistic expression. A compilation of ideas, judgments, artistic attitudes, photos, visual recordings and texts that describe individual cases of architecture and art in the light of their passionate visual characters. Passion architecture is a term coined by the author explaining architecture in parallel to the ideologies of some social and political movements of the period after World War II, which are characterized by vision, passion, but also by xenophobia and homophobia. This is exceptionally significant and interesting book that evokes memories of the recent past in the fields of art and penetrates into the deepest emotions, aesthetic and moral understandings of contemporary art and architecture. The book that leaves no one indifferent. This is exceptionally significant and interesting book that evokes memories of the recent past in the field of art and penetrates into the deepest emotions, aesthetic and moral understandings of contemporary architecture. A book that leaves no one indifferent. The first edition of the book was created in 2009 as a result of Maldini's research on the topic of punk art and architecture. The next year it was published on the Internet. Tens of thousands of readers have read the book on the Internet. It was published the same year when Zaha Hadid, Greg Lynn and Wolf D. Prix published works of their students at the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna after the course which was held under the name "Architecture is pornography". The book was written at a time when exacerbated the conflict among the critics and Rem Koolhaas,"the architect of pornographic architecture" of administrative building CCTV in Beijing. At that years revived the ideas of designers and architects Carlo Mollino and John Lautner that incorporates the pornographic character. At the same time, the book includes ideas of punk rock movement that dates from the period 1969-1976, which representatives in Europe were punk rock groups Sex Pistols and The Clash.