Richard T. Reep: Burglitecture / Closing Reception

What is Burglitecture?

It’s an architect, caught burglarizing architecture and stashing the loot in their art. It is a theft of textures, a kidnapping of cornices and canopies, an armed robbery of rooflines, an assault upon space, a smash-and-grab of windows and doors.

Burglitecture is non-architecture. It is unbuilding, it is thievery of architecture for a subversive purpose: art. It’s a larceny of the landscape, a heinous heist of high design. Burglitecture breaks and enters the sacred temple of Architecture and robs it of dignity and purpose.

As such, Burglitecture is an architectural crime, a felonious act ripping off architecture and calling it art! Richard T. Reep updates the spectacular career of George Leonidas Leslie–known to some as Western George–, a New York architect who used his intimate knowledge of building design to run a successful criminal gang in 19th century New York and Philadelphia, seizing millions from Gilded age…