02 metropolis

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Metropolitan Condition / Anti modernism Rem Koolhass 1977

Modern technologies

CULTURE OF CONGESTION (URBAN)

Human population

KRETANJE / LIFT, STEPENICE, ESKALATORELEKTRIFIKACIJA / …..

THE BUILDING IS AN ACCUMULATION OF PRIVACIES.

Human condition

A world fabricated by man / to live inside fantasy ……. Bloated private realms (architecture

not only creates the ste of everyday life, but it also defines its contents with all possible

means and disciplines such as literature, psychology, etc.) ….



Arhigram http://www.archigram.net/

Plug-in city

Instant city

Moving city

Walking city

http://www.archigram.net/

http://www.archigram.net/



ilya kabakov

10 characters – kommunalka

The house of dream

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcglyhUre4w





” More and more, we live by ourselves. Traditional social networks of family and clan have given

way to temporary and negotiated ones, and even friendships are fluid and often exist outside of

physical space. By 2006, a third of all of us in developed and developing countries will be livingalone. How can we be at home in the modern world? the Dutch collective Droog Design, in

collaboration with the advertising farm Kesselkramer, has collaborated to create a prototype

community for singles. “S1ngletown” is an abstract representation of an urban space consisting

of the cocoons, implements, connective technologies, and wearable signs singles needs in order

to inhabit our atomized environment. It is a network of solitary nodes in a spatial network

architects, designers and artists must weave in order to create a social alternative to a landscapeof alienated individuals and static objects” http://www.singletown.org/

http://www.singletown.org/

http://www.singletown.org/



The grid is, above all, a conceptual speculation…in its

indifference to topography, to what exists, it claims the

superiority of mental construction over reality” - Rem

Koolhaas, Delerious New York

The real revolution in radical architecture is the revolution of

kitsch: mass cultural consumption, pop art, an industrial-

commercial language. There is the idea of radicalizing the

industrial component of modern architecture to theextreme.» (Branzi)



The structured, hierarchic system of blocks supersedes the natural landscape that lies beneath it,

in a way that frames the grid as already unreal. The grid is set up as a kind of game-board on

which the metropolis plays its own development. The city grid becomes the game-board of urbanism.



The third typology, which Vidler posits as one that is the reconstitution of the fragments of other typologies, containsvarious typologies all at once. As the site for this new typology the city is “born of a desire to stress the continuity of f orm

and history against the fragmentation produced by the elemental, institutional, and mechanistic typologies of the recent

past” (261). The continual reconstitution of fragments ensures multiple readings and realities and relations dependent

upon “inherited from meanings ascribed by the past existence of the forms”, a “choice of the specific fragment and its

boundaries”, “a recomposition of these fragments in a new context”. Thus the development of a third typology results from

the fragmentation of existent typologies and a reassembly of them, giving rise to new meaning and new purpose. The city is

therefore in a constant state of renewal, for, if I follow the logic correctly, even the third typology will fragment and be

reconstituted, producing new meaning from the old, “the layers of accrued implication deposited by time and humanexperience cannot be lightly brushed away” (262) but they can reconstitute, producing new meaning, form and function.



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