The Carré Bleu will be handed
over to the new association provided that it gives editorial
objectives which will not be in contradictions, in their spirit,
with the editorial criteria which were the ones of the review
from 1958 to April, 19th 2003, and which are summarized as
follows. All editorial adjustments to present time are not only
envisaged, but welcome.
Militancy
Le Carré Bleu is a review of analysis
and detachment, but also of stances and immediate response to
events.
Some principles
LArchitecture, urban art,
town and territorial planning must be, first of all, attempts to
meet essential social problems.
The Carré Bleu has the task of
denouncing abnormalities, gaps, injustice concerning training,
teaching, research and practice as to the built heritage and the
environment; of denouncing then, and if possible, of proposing.
The Carré Bleu must try
and set all relations between all the forms of creation, since
this produces openness and richness.
The review must make a permanent effort of critical
clarification to replace the recent or new creations in a
historic continuity which takes into account what appears
accessory or essential in architectural movements.
Critical clarification means
judgement, stance, fighting spirit, if it is necessary, the
weapons and tools of which must be inspired by an intellectual
honesty, an ethic and an independence comparable to those which
have characterised and justified the review since its foundation
in Helsinki, 1958 (read the 167 issues published ...)
A review in which the
tendency to privilege the past, the present or the future, does
not rule out reactivity to novelty when it has an impact on the
places and ways of living of man.
An international review,
bilingual in its own characteristic, with collaborators who are
not exclusively Europeans. In spite of different nationalities,
it is necessary to look for collaborators, in all countries,
whose "intellectual reflexes" have to be coherent with the
criteria stated in this document.
The Carré Bleu was
first titled "feuille internationale d’architecture". At that
time it was a folder. It would be possible to go back to this
more economical form, but it would also be more difficult to
plan it because it would necessary to select the accessory, that
is turned down, from the essential, that is dealt with. Il would
be also possible to choose other forms of physical, graphic,
electronic and other presentations.
It is interesting
to remember that the Carré Bleu, born in Finland in 1958, from
the dissolution of C.I.A.M., has been able to take part in the
great international movements of architecture at certain times
of its life, and has been an arena in particular for architects
who were theoreticians and at the same time would put their
theories into practice (Team X). If the Carré Bleu is able to
bring to life again this richness, which involves confrontation
between theory and its material expression, becoming or being
again the privileged place for the actors of this exceptional
practice, it would be of extraordinary interest.
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