Industrial = Imposition
Give everyone the key to the city.
A tall skyscraper leaves a long shadow (economy). Ironic transparent windows spell an agenda-less architecture (and the poignancy of an architectural year zero).
Submissions by the Public
Residents would vote for what design represents a cause/style/future they need. C'est possible: on fabrique, on vend, on se paie (
It is possible: we make them, we sell them, we pay ourselves!)!
The Plug-less City
Exploit residues not voids (details). Plug-In City? The (plug)
is the message: a
dramatis personæ. When we plug-in to something, for example land, we don't just
obtain the resources to cook our food or water our garden, we plug-in to a whole history of (re-)written laws, drawn and gerrymandered political demarcations,
virgin-to-industrialised-to-sprawled-up-on earth. Thus these 'plugs' are the connections to a preprogrammed way of living mediated by private and governmental entities.
From the back, swinging on two legs of his chair, the class clown said, "But Mr. Cook, we shouldn't have to 'plug-in' to get stuff, we should plug-out, rignt?"
The kids erupted in laughter.
He continued, "That's our job, right? To plug-out. How about we don't even design the plug?"
The laughter subsided and the children's eyes turn to Mr. Cook.
He just stood there, scratching his left temple.
The Internet is the new CBD.
Dissolution = Resolution
We will Never be Sustainable1
Property, Responsibility, Prothesis at Home.
De-formalisation of space. Citizenship(?) and Nationality(?).
'We are a collective body of humans whose life-energy is wasted, displaced, and procedurally stolen as it passes from one of us to another...'
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1Stewardship & mass admission not the big 'other'. Be a John Muir.
2Mailer, N., 1957. "The White Negro (Superficial Reflections on the Hipster)" in Dissent, IV (Spring). Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, pp.276-293.
Year: 2009
There is no style guide
Nonsensical buildings revamped for the masses and their interests.
A haunted architectural profession: "technology + cardboard (or any other flimsy material) = reality"
A reduction/abstraction of Gehry’s Guggenheim in Bilbao to its fundamental spatial arrangement.
Personal Savings Rate: (China vs. United States) Savings as a Percentage of GDP. Sources: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis & China National Bureau of Statistics
A Turneresque Future: Frankfurt, Germany’s fiscal centre experiencing a possible CBD implosion. The scaffolding mimics and consumes the dead skyline. Workers dismantle the deceased architectural organs of the economy they represented.
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US/Mexico Border
(...imagine what lurks now already beneath the skin: raw flesh and bones, inner fluids, half-digested food and excrements...)
...and grandfather asked, "But where is the Internet?"
