The World of Structures we Never Asked For
"Architecture = The imposition on the world of structures we never asked for and that existed previously only as clouds of conjectures in the minds of their creators."
My response to the basis of what we've discussed thus far and my reactions to the readings/video are centered on the basis of this quote from Blade Runner/Delirious New York. I find the idea of congestion, that has been brought up, is a reflection on perhaps the naive(ness) of Developers and the growth of people towards the center - and is yet, a culmination of Architects.
As a majority of the population flocks towards the City Center, density gets worse and worse. Developers, and even Government, have no option but to react. Architects are brought into this because ultimately, we provide a service. Through history we can look at all the types of architecture to better the consequences of our designs, and that's where I hope this class will take us. We can only be more educated designers by studying those that published, failed, and created before us.
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| Screenshot of the quote used above from Blade Runner. |
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| The bustling City Center that drives congestion. |
I think this notion of congestion in city is an opportunity for us to design with not only programmatic but also spacial constraints and figuring out the notion of public, private built and organic spaces.
ReplyDeleteI agree that as architects we need to address congestion as part of our standard services. The world (and cities) are only going to become more crowded as population increases because we have a finite amount of land. I feel like a lot of our future projects as professionals will be in dense urban areas so its important to revisit ideas of earlier architects like Koolhaas.
ReplyDeleteThe rapid developing and density, congestion, of cities and within buildings is something we as architects need to address. If we don't want to over pack cities how do we balance this without going the opposite direction and having issues of urban sprawl and covering our landscape? These are two points of consideration.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you post. It makes me think of how an architect needs to be a responsible citizen. There is a limit to what we can influence simply by presenting alternatives to paying clients when they acting reactionary and profit-centric. If there is not policy to encourage responsible design, it becomes our responsibility to encourage and enact that policy to give architects more teeth when it comes to designing for the public good.
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