About Unicorns

“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realization of Utopias.” ― Oscar Wilde

Looking back at the theories which were studied, applied or followed by so many people during half of the century it is intriguing how much potential and possibilities for interpretations are there. But they share one thing - all creators (including architects) are visioners and they perceive and operate with the theories and reality through the lens of ideal, striving for utopia or dystopia.

Natural, “chaotic” approach to design, aesthetics, and identity through paying attention to the everyday “common” life values, needs and “pop culture” is juxtaposed by idealistic purity of modernism.   

Almost “vernacular” architecture of Megapolis is presenting the realization of the separate "ideal" lifestyles, compressed and delivered in a way that they become opposites.

Studying the realization of the perfect ideas it seems that, aiming for utopia, humans/architects are creating the realizations which are “pregnant with possible failure”  and it usually ends up becoming a real one, which is actually is not a failure but another step of progress and should be perceived with irony as Koolhaas does.

Creation of an “ideal human” is turning into a horror for humanity which should be “fixed” and developed cities are left empty for a better place. Another “ideal human” does not know about it and is dreaming about “ideal unicorn”.