On February 4, 2002, in the same year that Sorg Architects received the commission to build the embassy compound in Kabul, the CIA used an unmanned Predator drone in a targeted killing for the first time. The strike was in Paktia province, two hundred kilometers south of Kabul, near the city of Khost. The intended target was Osama bin Laden. In 1956, representatives of the United States traveled to Kabul to display national technologies, goods, and pleasures in the Jeshyn International Fair. The design and construction of the US pavilion for the fair, commissioned by Jack Masey, the exhibitions officer for the United States Information Agency (USIA), had to be completed in six months. Masey chose a Geodesic Dome; with patent number US 2,682,235 filed by Buckminster Fuller and awarded in 1954, as the structure for the cultural display of transportation systems, TV sets, and agricultural techniques. The same structural system has since been used around the world as the stage for fairs, civic buildings, art projects, and even direct military operations. In 1967, antiwar protesters used the US Pavilion in Montreal, a class 1 frequency 16 icosahedron of seventysix meters in diameter, to denounce the bombs being dropped in Vietnam, with shirts imprinted with “Stop the Bombs” and “Genocide.” Certain architectures, designed to travel, have traversed the ideological spectrum as well, enabling different uses and narratives by staying true to their own internal agendas. BULLETS WITHOUT IDEOLOGY explores the ideological openness of prototypical architecture, which by definition presents solutions in search of a problem.
© Fabrizio Furiassi . Published on November 25, 2014.
© Fabrizio Furiassi . Published on November 25, 2014.
© Fabrizio Furiassi . Published on November 25, 2014.
© Fabrizio Furiassi . Published on November 25, 2014.
© Fabrizio Furiassi . Published on November 25, 2014.
© Fabrizio Furiassi . Published on November 25, 2014.
© Fabrizio Furiassi . Published on November 25, 2014.
© Fabrizio Furiassi . Published on November 25, 2014.
© Fabrizio Furiassi . Published on November 25, 2014.
© Fabrizio Furiassi . Published on November 25, 2014.