BROWN
A Contemporary Re-Examination of No-Stop City 1
Hailey Brown, M.Arch
Nostalgic for the Future
B
oth No-Stop City by Archizoom Associati and The Air from other Planets by Sean Lally yearn for a day beyond superficiality and mass consumption. Neither is caught up in the ideas for conservation or efficiency, but rather the opposite, by consuming the planet in a whole new way. Whether the reason is to reconnect with Mother Earth or to display the ridiculousness of the current state of consumerism, Lally and Archizoom propose radical new worlds that create endless cities.
Shifts in Thinking Lally poses that architecture is purely a mediator between humans and the natural elements.â€œâ€ŚArchitecture has elected to define its shape and spaces through devices of mediation (surfaces, walls, inert masses) that temper the
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