Tag: urban form

Friedensreich Hundertwasser
15 July 2016

Friedensreich Hundertwasser15 July 2016

Hauteurs de Macchu-Picchu, or the Heights of Macchu Picchu is a poem by Pablo Neruda written in 1945 that embraces a visit he made to the site in Peru, and includes within it a critique of modern life. The mountainous location is echoed in the form of this pile of… Read More

Tagspresentation theoretical & imaginary urban form

Hans Hollein: Everything is Architecture
4 March 2016

Hans Hollein: Everything is Architecture4 March 2016

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Tagssurvey topographic/cartographic urban form

Hans Hollein: Infinite Space
4 March 2016

Hans Hollein: Infinite Space4 March 2016

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Ville Spatiale
20 November 2015

Ville Spatiale20 November 2015

– Yona Friedman

The ‘spatial city’, or rather its infrastructure, is the support for a great number of heterogeneous messages. The spatial city, in a way, is the ‘blank sheet of paper’ on which a work is drawn. And it is precisely this nature of the blank sheet of paper that allows nearly… Read More

Tagsconcept & diagram presentation sketch urban form

Archizoom, Andrea Branzi and the No-Stop City
6 November 2015

Archizoom, Andrea Branzi and the No-Stop City6 November 2015

– Andrea Branzi

Archizoom describe this ‘hypothetical theatre’ as part of a fluid and unstoppable culture, a non-stop metropolis re-imagined to fit the times, characterised by mobile theatres, unbound books, rooms without plan, unwritten music, … and cities made of voids. For the first time the presentation technique has … become a specific… Read More

Tagsprojection (axonometric isometric) publication theoretical & imaginary urban form

Walter Pichler
16 October 2015

Walter Pichler16 October 2015

– Walter Pichler

Architecture … is a brutal matter … it crushes those who cannot stand it. Quoted from a manuscript statement, c. 1962

Tagssection theoretical & imaginary topographic/cartographic urban form

Preamble to a New World
4 September 2015

Preamble to a New World4 September 2015

– Constant

Stones speak. Towns speak. Ruins and skylines: the story of the people. From ‘Preamble to a New World,’ New Babylon, 1963.

Tagsdomestic elevation presentation publication sketch theoretical & imaginary urban form

Constant’s New Babylon
3 September 2015

Constant’s New Babylon3 September 2015

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History & Origins
21 August 2015

History & Origins21 August 2015

– Aldo Rossi

And these old drawings […] now have their own history, an almost enforced form of composition. And yet I wonder at the fact that they are the origin or germ of these new architectural works, which others could regard as more professional. In actual fact, invention and imagination have deeper… Read More

Tagselevation memorial & monument presentation theoretical & imaginary urban form

Work on Paper: The changing metropolis 1940s–1980s
29 November 2013

Work on Paper: The changing metropolis 1940s–1980s29 November 2013

– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg

Part III: Monumentalism and motion 1940s –1980s A night rendering, making cinematic use of the dynamics of movement to suggest modernity, appears in the émigré architect Vassilieve’s ideal Manhattan, his animated drawing technique demonstrating how the varied shelves and openings of a setback megablock scheme bring energy and momentum, light… Read More

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