'Sur' Realism: After Surrealism Comes Hyperrealism. (1st March 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Alonso, Hernan Diaz
• Other Names: Spiller Neil guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 88:Number 2(2018)
• Page Start: 128
• Page End: 133
• Publication Date: 2018-03-01
• Subjects: Jorge Luis Borges -- New Yorker -- 'The True Meaning of Nostalgia' -- Michael Chabon -- Neil Spiller -- Brendan Ho -- Fluffy -- Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI‐Arc) -- Los Angeles -- Feiran Wang -- Absurd Architecture -- Mohammad Soleiman -- Frayed and Refined -- Hernan Diaz Alonso/Xefirotarch -- Park Bench -- TBA 21 Pavilion -- Patagonia -- National Museum of World Writing -- Songdo -- South Korea -- Surrealism -- Man Ray -- André Breton -- Photoshop -- Matthieu Bourel -- René Magritte -- Zago Architecture -- Pita & Bloom -- Perry Kulper -- Peter Eisenman -- Dogma -- Pier Vittorio Aureli -- Martino Tatara; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2290
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract : If Surrealism was originally about freeing the subconscious, what is its relevance in our now‐liberated era? Despite avowed sympathies with the Surrealist movement, Hernan Diaz Alonso – Principal of Los Angeles‐based architectural practice Xefirotarch and Director and CEO of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI‐Arc) – argues that the way forward for visionary architecture in the digital age lies instead in the creation of new coherencies: a hyperrealism of the present that exploits and transforms clichés.