Architecture should address its future, abandoning self-reference to find new referents in other disciplines, fully entering into the formal universe of nature as, according to Kaprow, Le Corbusier and Wright had done with masterly effect in their late work. Furthermore, Kaprow advocated the fusion of architecture and nature, which according to him should become the major working vector of future architecture. There Kaprow openly acknowledged the sculptural value of Le Corbusier’s late work and the organic world of Frank Lloyd Wright, identifying in them the spirit of the times. ![]() ![]() This assessed a series of ideas that Kaprow had been developing for some time and were subsequently explained in his book Assemblage, Environments and Happenings, published in 1966. For the first uptown show staged at Martha Jackson Gallery in New York in 1959, Allan Kaprow wrote a text called Paintings, Environments and Happenings.
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