Situationism is defined as the movement that describes the situation around us. Situationism in architecture is distinguished into more sub forms such as derive and disjunction. The Situationism in derive is perfectly described into Guy Debord’s Essays (Debord 1956) and disjunction in Tschumi’s Architecture and Disjunction (Tschumi n.d.) and The Manhattan Transcript (Tschumi, The Manhattan Transcipt 1963). The essays both elaborate how Situationism move architecture throughout that period.

Debord gives a brief introduction of situationism in architecture, where he explains that the things that occur throughout our lifetimes define the place where we are located and how that place changes throughout time. Situationism gives a clear picture of how architecture gets affected when periods and movements change over time and with that architecture also changes. Therefore, Debord explained derive, that was “a practice of the passional journey out of the ordinary through rapid change of ambiances” (Debord 1956) .Debord gives a critique how derive functioned inside the cities as a diverse movement that drives the neighborhoods and how they shift throughout time.

              Tschumi on the other hand, wanted to analyze situationism more deeply. He described disjunction in situationism, where Tschumi tried to dislocate the components of the architectural works and how they tried to shape and evolve. Tschumi started with defining the space of the work, where he analyzes the boundary of the space, how the space will act in the location that was given. The space is given as the interaction of people and how people can change space throughout time with the movement that the space is involved and when the systems and components of the work come together, they create the work itself.

Situationism defines architecture throughout how architecture shaped and evolved cities throughout time. From Debord’s views of creating diverse and dynamic spaces in neighborhoods of cities to disjoining the works that are analyzed deeper of how the works react throughout time, situationism explains how the things around us react throughout time. Situationism has a dynamic in both architecture and the real world and therefore situationism is described itself even today.

References

Debord, Guy. 1956. “Essays.”

Tschumi, Bernard. n.d. Archtecture and Disjcuntion.

—. 1963. The Manhattan Transcipt.