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“New York New York – the city so nice they named it twice.”
- Michael
Scott
In Rem Koolhaas’s “The Culture of Congestion”, Manhattan is
used to define Metropolis. Stories of Coney Island, elevators, and a downtown athletic
club, create an extravagant marvel that depicts metropolitan architecture. The
elevator now creates the possibility for buildings to touch the sky and for
more people to pack into a smaller building footprint, it also demonstrates the
idea of a world totally created by man.
My response prior to the year 2020:
I am fascinated by the idea of metropolitan architecture and
its place in history. The excitement of new inventions, culture, and infrastructure
create civilizations that are unique and can’t be reciprocated just anywhere.
Instead of disregarding this time as too much too fast, I think it is a place
to celebrate, a place that holds artifacts of, essentially, a turn in the
modern world.
I find the concept of metropolitan architecture and humans living stacked on top of each other both absurd and intriguing. Why would anyone want to live in such an environment almost completely detached from nature? It doesn't make sense to me but I have always been one who wants room to be able to spread out and walk around in the woods. But on the flipside, one could make an argument that cities are a natural thing because they definitely sprung up all over the globe organically and the fact that there is so damn many of them. I mean think about it, bees live in probably the most congested and natural living arrangement on the planet.
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