Pure Hardcorism

Pure Hardcorism:
Hard-Core:  characterized by or being the purest or most basic form of something. [1]
Manifesto

In the kingdom of architecture the shapes reign supreme. Centuries of the continuous search for a transcendental architecture serve as evidence that a pure shape is the ultimate aesthetic utopia. Hardcorism is the theory of architecture as pure geometric shapes. The first endless architectural manifesto, it announces the advent of an architecture of already known looks. Hardcorism is form as ideology. Ideology as form.
Architects have been searching for the pure shapes ever since they started registering icons on a monumental scale. The pure shapes have become an endless obsession. A Platonic fetish. A recurrent topic. The pure shapes represent the ultimate aspiration of mankind. A direct connection to the gods. Form as temple. Religion as geometry.
Hardcorism is pure form unconcealed. It is blunt, straightforward, explicit, up front.  It presents itself as it is, and represents ...

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