Statement

Architecture has long been trapped in a heroic manifesto - we must design something beautiful, precise, original, timeless, and eternal… The fact is quite the opposite. Architecture is unappreciated, misused, duplicated, abandoned, and demolished…

Architect is a paradoxical profession. There is a certain pursuit of precision in many architecture projects, but most will not make sense anymore in a couple of years.

Duplicate Beauty is an architectural fiction based on the palace Petit Trianon in Versaille, France, and its duplicate in San Francisco - Le Petit Trianon. Both are historic heritages. Duplicate Beauty imagines such a copying process repeated over and over, and describes the contradictions that arise in the process, including the pursuit of luxury and the localization of materials, the fidelity to the original work, and the actual life of the user.

The story of these replicas is presented to highlight the unrealized design ambitions and question the positions of architects.