10 1 3 7 Dr. Shelagh McCartney PLE 755 10/29/2014
Speculative Procedures
Erik Lynch-Christensen Nikolas Koschany Manuel Rivera Lenoardo Petruniti
10 Speculative Contents //identity //culture //resurgence //internet //communications //centricity //landscape //housing //innovation //conclusion //questions
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//identity
Koolhaas, Rem.Small, medium, large, extra-large : Office for Metropolitan Architecture..Monacelli Press,1995.
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Monuments are the expression of man’s cultural needs. They have to satisfy the central demand of the people for translation of their collective force into symbols. -José Luis Sert
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Instead of consciousness, as its original inventors may have hoped, it creates a new unconscious. It is modernization's little helper. -Rem Koolhaas
is the ideal Koolhaas, Rem.Small, medium, large, extra-large : Office for Metropolitan Architecture..Monacelli Press,1995 Sert, José Luis; Leger, F. and Giedion, S. Harvard Architecture Review. Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1984
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//resurgence
Together, all attempts to make a
New beginning have only discredited the idea of a new beginning. -Rem Koolhaas
...Propositive Projects take as starting point a critical understanding of reality on the basis of which they formulate systems of or transformation. -Busquets stretched
As the concept of city is distorted and beyond precedent, each insistence on its primordial condition - in terms of inlages, rules', fabricationirrevocably leads via nostalgia to irr ele -Rem Koolhaas van ce. Koolhaas, Rem.Small, medium, large, extra-large : Office for Metropolitan Architecture..Monacelli Press,1995.
Busquetes, J. (2006). Speculative Procedures. Cities: 10 Lines - A New Lense for the Urbanistic Project. Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Koolhaas, Rem.Small, medium, large, extra-large : Office for Metropolitan Architecture..Monacelli Press,1995.
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Public life seems to be slipping away... -Mitchell William
Radio, movies, television and printed information are today the whole field of communication. -José Luis Sert
It’s extraordinarily efficient but it also eliminates occasions that going to the track had provided, for making contacts, s o c i a l i z i n g, building trust, and doing deals. -Mitchell William
Sert, José Luis; Leger, F. and Giedion, S. Harvard Architecture Review. Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1984 Mitchell, W. J. (1999). E-topia : 'urban Life, Jim--but Not As We Know It'. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
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//centricity
The city today is a dying thing because it is not Geometrical -Le corbusier
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition -Le corbusier
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The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
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The persistence of the present
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The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition -Le corbusier
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition -Le corbusier
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
-Le corbusier
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
-Le corbusier
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
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-Le corbusier
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
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The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition -Le corbusier
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition -Le corbusier
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The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
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The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
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The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
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The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
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The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
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The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
The Result of a true Geographic Layout is Repetition
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LE CORBUSIER .The City Reader.2nd ed..Routledge,2000. Koolhaas, Rem.Small, medium, large, extra-large : Office for Metropolitan Architecture..Monacelli Press,1995.
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Imagining an urbanism that is other nd than the status quo requires a c o mmodate new sensibility - one that has the ca p the inherent conflictual conditions between ecology and urbanism. -Mitchell William
The place was coMPlEx, but it was made uniform. It had contained many delights, but these were -Ian McHarg
LE CORBUSIER .The City Reader.2nd ed..Routledge,2000. McHARG, Ian.Design With Nature..J. Wiley,. Mitchell, W. J. (1999). E-topia : 'urban Life, Jim--but Not As We Know It'. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
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The Building Cell understood in this sense represents the basic structure of a production program, from which is excluded any other standard component. The single building is no longer an "object."
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Now we are left with a world without urbanism, only architecture, -Rem Koolhaas ever more architecture. The Mass Designed
Mass Designed Mass Designed Mass Produced Environments Mass Produced Environments Mass Produced Environments
for an increasingly homogenized market of mass-consumers are no more than assemblies of material goods devoid of ________ meaning. -John Turner
The Squatter Settlement: An Architecture that Works Architecture of Democracy, Architectural Design, August 1968 TAFURI, Manfredo. Architecture and Utopia: design and capitalist development. M.I.T. Press, 1976. LE CORBUSIER .The City Reader.2nd ed..Routledge,2000. Koolhaas, Rem.Small, medium, large, extra-large : Office for Metropolitan Architecture..Monacelli Press,1995.
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Free thinking did not find its shape in
rural regions
neither is it a product of press, radio or television, it owes more to the cafe table than to the school and, though other means have helped, it was mainly s p r e a d by the spoken word and born in the meeting places of the people. -JosĂŠ Luis Sert
...Interesting propositive projects are those that are capable of addressing work with an innovative, pioneering attitude, embracing the definition of and/or experimental procedures. -Busquets
Busquetes, J. (2006). Speculative Procedures. Cities: 10 Lines - A New Lense for the Urbanistic Project. Harvard Graduate School of Design. Sert, J. (1956). The Heart of the City: Towards the Humanism of Urban Life. Pellegrini & Cudahy.
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//conclusion
We can leaveleave the theatre now... -Rem Koolhaas
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//questions
/The past 7 years has seen a wide change in the use of public spaces due to the advent of the smartphones which bring formerly private activities to the public. Where do you see the use of public spaces going in the next 7 years? //Identity of the city, as discussed throughout this presentation, has been influenced in a multitude of ways through the design literature over time. How do you see the role of “identity” changing in an urban context with the further permeation of communication technologies in today’s society? ///In line 1 José Luis Sert identifies monuments as a testament to the collective past. In today’s society, much of what we produce is digital. Can we celebrate a collective history with digital devices rather than physical monuments, and if so, how?