From Standardization to Chaos: Everyday Life in Architectural Manifestos

A vital factor shaping the social and cultural practices of the 20th century was research into the phenomenon of everyday life, which became a central theme in architectural manifestos of the time. This investigation of the quotidian serves as the foundation for comparative research into the successes and failures of two key manifestos: Towards a New Architecture (Le Corbusier, 1923), which standardizes everyday life, making it rational and normative, and Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (Rem Koolhaas, 1978), which deconstructs everyday life, leaving it dynamic and chaotic. The aim is to explore whether everyday life contains consistent elements capable of generating new architectural manifestos.