Manifesto!

Icon magazine has an interesting list of 50 manifestos, in honor of their 50th issue. The manifestos are from many different personalities in the architecture and design world, and range from FOA trying explain how a practice that is anti-manifesto can write a manifesto, to anti-icon manifestos to Valerio Oligati's "Objects are the only things in architecture that are worth something", to other interesting writings by Bjarke Ingels, Steven Holl, and a surprisingly satisfying entry by Bruce Mau. His entry lines up very well with the entry by Bjarke Ingels, and it's not surprising that they have collaborated together before. Other notable entries, Zaha had nothing but an old image, Thom Mayne advocates for a sneaky sort of optimism, and Stefan Sagmeister has some more general life recommendations. All the entries are very different, and some are funny if nothing else.