how to create a beautiful non sequitur of architecture
In the medium of architecture, if you can’t do it, you have to write it
And if you can’t write it, you are an architect ahead of your time
the density of ideas in the minimal of structure
dali is to art, what gaudi is to architecture and galliano is to fashion
flavin and turrell is to art what mies and gropius is to architecture is what jil sander and helmet lang is to fashion
other examples..? please supply..
Connected: subways bring cities to life By Edwin Heathcote Published: April 6 2010 11:59 | Last updated: April 6 2010 11:59 A train station at Terminal 3 of Beijing Capital International Airport, featuring architectural design by Norman Foster. The Beijing Subway is the oldest and busiest in mainland China, serving more than five million commuters daily, and current plans call for an expansion from nine lines to 19 by 2015. Connected: subways bring cities to life * < * 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * 6 * 7 * 8 * 9 * 10 * > A train station at Terminal 3 of Beijing Capital International Airport, featuring architectural design by Norman Foster. The Beijing Subway is the oldest and busiest in mainland China, serving more than five million commuters daily, and current plans call for an expansion from nine lines to 19 by 2015. A chandelier sparkles above a platform at the Moscow Metro’s Komsomoloskaya station. The world’s second most heavily used subway system, after Tokyo, it carries more than 8m passengers daily and is known for the architectural extravagance of some of its stations. It has been the target of terror attacks in 1977, 2004 and 2010. A chandelier sparkles above a platform at the Moscow Metro’s Komsomoloskaya station. The world’s second most heavily used subway system, after Tokyo, it carries more than 8m passengers daily and is known for the architectural extravagance of some of its stations. It has been the target of terror attacks in 1977, 2004 and 2010. Designed by Norman Foster, the Bilbao Metro features elegant glass hoods at its station entrances. The first underground station in the Basque city opened in November 1988. Designed by Norman Foster, the Bilbao Metro features elegant glass hoods at its station entrances. The first underground station in the Basque city opened in November 1988. A Dubai Metro train runs along a track during a trial session in 2009, the year it was launched. The emirate’s driverless metro network currently operates one line and will expand to four over the next five years. A Dubai Metro train runs along a track during a trial session in 2009, the year it was launched. The emirate’s driverless metro network currently operates one line and will expand to four over the next five years. Large blue, red and yellow lamps light up the U-Bahn station at Westfriedhof in Munich. The network’s trains run at speeds of up to 80km/h – the fastest of their kind in Germany. Large blue, red and yellow lamps light up the U-Bahn station at Westfriedhof in Munich. The network’s trains run at speeds of up to 80km/h – the fastest of their kind in Germany. Mural paintings brighten a station of the Stockholm Metro, or Tunnelbana. The first part of the network was opened in 1950, and 100 stations are currently in use. Mural paintings brighten a station of the Stockholm Metro, or Tunnelbana. The first part of the network was opened in 1950, and 100 stations are currently in use. Russell Square is a station on the Piccadilly line of the London Underground, the oldest underground railway network in the world – it first opened in 1863 – as well as the longest by route length, running on roughly 400km of track. Russell Square is a station on the Piccadilly line of the London Underground, the oldest underground railway network in the world – it first opened in 1863 – as well as the longest by route length, running on roughly 400km of track. The entrance to the Saint-Michel station of the Paris Métro, designed by architect Hector Guimard, a prominent representative of the French Art Nouveau movement, at the start of the 20th century. The Métro has 214km of track serving 300 stations, and trains on some of its lines have rubber tyres. The entrance to the Saint-Michel station of the Paris Métro, designed by architect Hector Guimard, a prominent representative of the French Art Nouveau movement, at the start of the 20th century. The Métro has 214km of track serving 300 stations, and trains on some of its lines have rubber tyres. The Tokyo subway is the busiest in the world, transporting almost nine million people daily, and employs white-gloved staff, known as oshiya, to squeeze commuters on to crowded trains during peak hours. The Tokyo subway is the busiest in the world, transporting almost nine million people daily, and employs white-gloved staff, known as oshiya, to squeeze commuters on to crowded trains during peak hours. A train travels through 125th Street station of the New York City Subway. Opened in October 1902, the subway now carries more passengers than all other mass-transit rail systems in the US combined. A train travels through 125th Street station of the New York City Subway. Opened in October 1902, the subway now carries more passengers than all other mass-transit rail systems in the US combined. The metro is a parallel city, a subterranean network of tubes and cables that mirrors the complexity of the city above, a system of veins and arteries hidden beneath the skin of the street and pumping urban lifeblood. London’s Underground was the first. The Metropolitan Railway (lending its name to all that followed) opened in 1863, its locomotives spewing smoke into sooty, brick-built tunnels. The Underground has become a part of London’s mythology, a symbol of its resilience. It served as a shelter from the Blitz but also as a catacomb for victims of the 7/7 bombings and, in that dual role as womb and tomb, it finds its unique blend of familiarity, ennui and claustrophobia. Tokyo’s subway, fiercely efficient and exemplified by its white-gloved people-squeezers, had its sarin gas attacks. New York’s massive and once decrepit and dangerous system became a cipher for crime and the bankrupt megacity; its rebirth a symbol of the city taking back control. Yet we move on; underground, the subway can subsume and sublimate our fears – we continue as if nothing had ever happened. At its best, a metro offers a city a subterranean subconscious, a mirror image of itself. Hector Guimard’s sinuously organic Art Nouveau ironwork for the Paris Métro announces the presence of a station – art runs through the city’s veins – and the artist’s sign has become the symbol of the city itself, as have London’s roundels. Moscow’s astonishing Stalinist stations became palaces of the proletariat, fairy-tale commuters’ balls lit by sparkling chandeliers. Stockholm’s Tunnelbana appears as a network of caves, hewn from the rock and painted with endlessly engaging verve. Munich’s vividly coloured U-Bahn is an underground art gallery and, while Bilbao’s rebirth is usually credited to the Guggenheim Museum, it was the elegant glass hoods of the Basque city’s Metro system, designed by Norman Foster, that truly animated the city. From Shanghai to Dubai, cities are only allowed to become real once they have dug deep enough within themselves to make themselves truly metropolitan.
The Frontrunner: Steven Holl
The Experimental Duo: Elizabeth Diller & Ricardo Scofidio
The Sustainable Choice: Shigeru Ban
The Crafty Duo: Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa
The Odd Angle: Daniel Libeskind
The Wildcard: Toyo Ito
As far as the yellow goes… many men have red-green color blindness problems where blues, browns and yellows are far more visible. Combined with eye strain, colored papers are preferred for ease of reading and ease of contrast.
we have always been attracted y this ambivalence between something an nothing, by this floating of materials and space
architecture has the ability, rivaling literature, to imagine and propose new, alternative routes out of the present moment. So architecture isn’t just buildings, it’s a system of entirely re-imagining the world through new plans and scenarios.
A constant focus on research characterises all of her work, heir to the thousand-year tradition that has inspired the minimalist geometry of contemporary Japanese architecture. Toyo Ito describes her as “an architect who uses the maximum simplicity to link the material and the abstract”.
Maas’s theory of “vertical suburbias” is perfectly attuned to a world where population is expected to grow to more than 8 billion in the next 20 years, an estimated 5 billion of those people living in urban environments. “We want to synthesize and speculate on new directions, and hopefully open up a world of dreams to developers, economists, and politicians — dreams that can somehow change our fixed and fearful society,
designs grow seamlessly out of an existing space, tapping into its DNA, but giving it an entirely new image and public resonanc
Hyperreality
“Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory - precession of simulacra - that engenders the territory, and if one must return to the fable, today it is the territory whose shreds slowly rot across the extent of the map. It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours. The desert of the real itself.”— Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard, tr. Sheila Faria Glaser, University of Michigan Press, [1981]1995, p. 1 [full pdf]
Baudrillard is quoting a very (very) short story by Jorge Luis Borges “On Exactitude in Science” or “On Rigor in Science”. Learn more about it on Wikipedia and read one of its English translation.
