International Competitions in Architecture
A HOUSE FOR AN ADHD PERSON
(adult or child)
We read on the web that 1 out of 10 children in the United States suffers of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and that many of them carry into adulthood this illness.
But is it really an “illness..?”
What if, indeed, “normality” itself is an illness, and maybe the most serious of all…?
We invite you to be “abnormal.”
We invite you to welcome, yes welcome, a feast of ADHD.
We welcome you to dream, just like the child in Jacques Prevert’s beautiful poem "Page d'Ecriture":
Two and two four
Four and four eight
Eight and eight makes sixteen…
Repeat! says the teacher
Two and two four
Four and four eight
Eight and eight makes sixteen.
But there is a lyrebird
Who flies through the sky
The child sees it
The child hears it
And the child calls to it
Save me
Play with me
Bird!
So the bird descends
And plays with the child
Two and two four…
Repeat! says the teacher
And the child plays
And the bird plays with him…
Four and four eight
Eight and eight makes sixteen
And what’s sixteen and sixteen?
It makes nothing, 16 and 16
Especially not thirty-two
In any case
And it leaves
And the child hides the bird
In his desk
And the children hear his song
And all the children
Hear the music
And 8 and 8 leave in their turn
And 4 and 4 and 2 and 2
And in their turn clear out
And one and one don’t make 1 or 2
And 1 by 1 leave equally
And the lyrebird plays
And the child sings
And the teacher cries:
When you are done acting like clowns!
But the other children
Listen to the music
And the walls of the class
Crumble gently
And the glass panes become sand again
And the ink becomes water again
And the desks become trees again
And the chalk becomes cliffs again
And the quill becomes the bird again.
Please design a house for this child.
Please design a house for an ADHD person (child or adult alike).
Better even , please design a house for the Adult-Child who refuses to be eaten up by the monotony of ‘normality,” who refuses to become “healthy,” if by “healthy” one means unable of imperfections, unable of dreaming, unable of not-conforming, unable of not being “deviant.”
Design The House of Deviancy.
Design The House of ADHD.
Design A House for Jacques Prevert.
Please send us ANY work, ANY size and ANY format that responds to the theme to house_of_adhd@icarch.us. We will publish all the works received on our website, www.icarch.us. There is no registration fee. The deadline for submitting your work is always. If you have any questions please contact us.
Thank you,
ICARCH Gallery
Please note that Yves Montand is the singer in the video, not the author of the poem.
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