Junkspace: Is it really that evil?
Like most people, after reading this work by Koolhaas I was confronted with many disturbing thoughts of our society today. Junkspace really has taken over almost everything that we experience today. However, is this really a bad thing? Or is it simply just a natural progression of a modern world tasked with the responsibility to support a thriving populous?
While we might all wish things could be different I'm sure, I think as a society we should embrace junkspace for what it is. After all, without junkspace wouldn't it be harder to appreciate the truly beautiful things of life? In my mind, you have to have the norm to appreciate the extraordinary.
Just a thought. Maybe junkspace can be appreciated too for what it is.
While we might all wish things could be different I'm sure, I think as a society we should embrace junkspace for what it is. After all, without junkspace wouldn't it be harder to appreciate the truly beautiful things of life? In my mind, you have to have the norm to appreciate the extraordinary.
Just a thought. Maybe junkspace can be appreciated too for what it is.
I agree that we need to be, at least ambivalent when we think about junkspace. Merely judging doesn't sound like a very useful thing to do. But, as architects, it might be quite revealing to think how such an unstoppable phenomena affects our discipline. Has junkspace made us irrelevant?
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, we should appreciate what junkspace is and then appreciate the other more beautiful things in life. I think junkspace was created through the need of cheap and convenient spaces. Why is this such a bad thing? I also don't think it has made the profession irrelevant, junkspace makes you realize and appreciate the beautifully designed spaces more and maybe in the future, architects will figure out a better way to design junkspace.
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