El pliego
Obsesiones personales. Miradas acerca de la arquitectura, la ciudad, en un sentido amplio de la palabra.
A continuación un breve diagnóstico de cada una de estas obsesiones que me acompañan.
Apropiación: ”Acción y resultado de tomar para sí una cosa haciéndose dueño de ella.” Acciones que consiguen a través de dotar de un uso no programado un objeto o espacio, apropiarse de él.
Sociedad anónima: “Que se forma por acciones, con responsabilidad circunscrita al capital que representan”. Reflejo de estas sociedades, enjambres y colmenas formados por infinidad de individuos que desaparecen al formar parte de una colectividad. La arquitectura como anuladora de la individualidad.
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Myriahedral maps showing the near contiguity of Earth’s continents and oceans (J. van Wijk)
(vía fuckyeahcartography)
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Proposal for a palace at Orianda, Crimea (1838)
(vía rchtctrstdntblg)
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ENEROPA by OMA:
With a cheeky, provocative tone typical of OMA, they even show a map of Europe redrawn as “Eneropa”, with regions defined by their energy source. Ireland and the western half of Britain become the “tidal states”, while the eastern half forms part of the “isles of wind”. Former Yugoslavia is miraculously reunited as “Biomassburg”. Most of Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece become “Solaria”. OMA shows images of these places, like postcards from the future, with batteries of turbines, or plumes of geothermal steam.
(vía rchtctrstdntblg)
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1948 San Francisco Trafficways Plan.
glad a few of those freeways weren’t built, right?
(vía fuckyeahcartography)
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Leon Krier, Res Publica / Res Economica / Civitas, 1983 (via polis)
The Constitutional and Representational Frames.
(vía nomadicity)
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ÉVA LE ROI’S “CONDITIONNEMENT” via Socks Studio
“Architecture is a history of borders. It materializes existing power relations through a clear delimitation of space. The surrounding structures impose onto us in an intrusive way in order to reassure, control, contain, seduce.
They reflect our lifestyle, conditioning it directly.
The city is both territory and population, physical environment and gravity of social relations. It is the interaction between the delimiting built environment and the conditioned social flow that should be studied to approach its reality. Open the envelope to look inside.”
(Translation from French by Socks)
(Fuente: ryanpanos)
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Coop Himmelblau, The Men, The Machines, The legends. Masters of the dust laden photo montage created by searing hot photocopiers in the dead of night. AAFiles 15 Summer 1987
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“L’architecture est une histoire de frontières. Elle matérialise des rapports de dominance existants, par une division franche de l’espace. Les structures qui nous entourent s’imposent à nous de façon intrusive, pour rassurer, contrôler, contenir, séduire.Elles reflètent notre mode de vie, le conditionnant directement.
La ville est à la fois territoire et population, cadre matériel et pesanteur des rapports sociaux. C’est bien l’interaction même entre la bâti délimitant et le flux social conditionné qu’il convient d’étudier pour approcher sa réalité. Ouvrons l’enveloppe pour regarder à l’intérieur.”
via: Socks(Fuente: topa-tank)
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NL Architects, “In the capitals of Europe 18 Km2 of OFFICE SPACE is left unusued. This equals more than half of Manhattan. Or a ghost town of 50 Twin Towers”.
NLA sono ironici.
