PRENDRE LA PAROLE: New Alternatives
Triptych of the New Town of Tema, for The Banality of Good, at the 2012 Venice Biennale of Architecture
Anna Kamyshan, 2013
by Crimson Architectural Historians
0. Interview with Rem Koolhaas “Cities of Opportunity”, 2011
When you talk about a new city [...] it is simply impossible to talk about its character. Therefore, a new city in fact only called cities, while it can be argued that the main features by which we define city as it is, [...] are becoming less relevant and appropriate in order to understand what is really a city now. Yet, when we look at Dubai, Beijing and cities in the Pearl River Delta, only one thing which we can see it is an infinite freedom which is used here as a concept of the city. 0
Introduction
1. Никитин В. А. “Принцип города: организационное представление”, 2000
Cities have been building since the beginning of the civilization as a way for common coexistence. It is a multiplicity of social and cultural forms, organized by development process of the properties and the ideas of the place in a specific historical situation. Thus, the city is a kind of marked place, material, a tool and a product of its own work on formation of the world the real embodiment of which ensues of the ideal prototypes. 1