"Can architecture once again offer a perspective?"
"What is the role for architecture in this respect? Can it become a device for that process? Can it take an active position on these issues? Can it formulate spatial directions rather than fearful reactions? Is it possible to enlarge the scope of architecture again? Can it point to wider issues and show alternatives?"
"Architecture is a device Based on this cocktail of backgrounds and findings, it is hypothesized that because of the potential of the virtual domain to grasp complexity, because of the potential to work everywhere, and because of the speed of the reproduction of ideas, architecture is now able to move
into the development of "devices" that can combine top-down, large-scale issues with bottom-up, individualized input: a combination of analyses with proposals. Consequently, when architecture is a device, its products can be understood as "instruments" of general observations, as "messengers"
of urban transactions and criticism, as "facilitators" for development and acceleration and as "communicators" of wider processes and agendas. Architecture will become a medium again."
Reading 2: Visionary Drawings of Architecture and Planning: 20th Century through the 1960s Geourge R. Collins
This reading shaped my thoughts on the future, and visionary architecture.
"In General the visionary statement or position this is likely to be considerably ahead of its time and may not even be intended to be carried out. The term "visionary" is not, however, synonymous with "unbuilt and cannot be put into effect as the Oxford English Dictionary suggests.
Sometimes a model vision is not really intended to be built at the time - like Ludwig Mies van der rohe's Glass Tower- but is later executed more or less as projected; today our advanced technology makes possible almost anything, even the most daring dreams."
into the development of "devices" that can combine top-down, large-scale issues with bottom-up, individualized input: a combination of analyses with proposals. Consequently, when architecture is a device, its products can be understood as "instruments" of general observations, as "messengers"
of urban transactions and criticism, as "facilitators" for development and acceleration and as "communicators" of wider processes and agendas. Architecture will become a medium again."
Reading 2: Visionary Drawings of Architecture and Planning: 20th Century through the 1960s Geourge R. Collins
This reading shaped my thoughts on the future, and visionary architecture.
"In General the visionary statement or position this is likely to be considerably ahead of its time and may not even be intended to be carried out. The term "visionary" is not, however, synonymous with "unbuilt and cannot be put into effect as the Oxford English Dictionary suggests.
Sometimes a model vision is not really intended to be built at the time - like Ludwig Mies van der rohe's Glass Tower- but is later executed more or less as projected; today our advanced technology makes possible almost anything, even the most daring dreams."
Mies van der Rohe - Maquette Glass Skyscraper (1922)
Mies van der Rohe - Design Friedrichstrasse (1919)
From Further research, it was apparent that with advancements in technology, todays cities are built on yesterdays "visions". Whats next? Will we see x-seed 4000 in the future? Where is the limit? (if any)
X-Seed 4000, Tokyo, Japan: visionary 4km high structure of 1995
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