- 1950's street design
Megastructure
Naked City: conception of unknown parks and how the city connected together, essentially making a new city. It is a new and different understanding in a disjuncted way.
- Connection of urban blocks
- Layered construction
- Possibility of air, underground, expanding vertically, horizontally
Proposed large projects took place in the 1960's and 1970's
What are they not evident today?
- Possibility of communist countries who see the needs for larger agenda. Democractic society doesn't seem to need the same values
- Funding is not available
- Economic drops (Recession)
- Political regimes depict what exist
New Aesthetic Framework
- Development of electrical lines - In 1910 they were exposed. As underground sewers and electrical lines were developed, they structural elements were actually built into the structure.
Otherness in Architecture
- Sense of connection between humans and machines: Union station in Winnipeg, was once the largest building in 1910, it connected society.
- Religious Structures: Churches
- Museums
- Heating/Cooling plant: aids the machine (support)
- Warehouses
All these types of "others" aid each other in the fabric of the city: machining, living, working.
As money flow became available in the 1950's, customized housing became popular.
Mutant Acts (out of the box)
Who are we designing for? How can we design for and with machines, nature and humans.
Dreamscape (desire)
- What is our ideal? Possibly desired cash flow, infrastructure development, technology
- We have to project our version of what is ideal in order to achieve it. What is our plan?
There are confessions and discussions in what to teach, so a collective standard of direction should be an educational goal. We must pay attention to opportunities, such as mutant spaces (who was or maintains these?)
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