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.: Jonas 10:10 PM
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France's Revolting High Rises
Were the French riots produced by Modern architecture?
.: Jonas 8:19 PM
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just got back from berlin. aside from experiencing the highest birth rate in all of europe at the moment, the revival of the corner store (tante emma-laden) in its upscale version in all neighborhoods, east and west (after a period of incredible growth of chain-supermarkets, stadium-seating cinemas and inner-city shopping malls in the 90s, that's quit a turnaround), berlin is home to a new movement in architecture. well not so new, but becoming increasingly visible. young architects who claim to define the role of the architect in a new way. they develop events and fun objects entirely outside any economic reality. while there is no funding available for 'real' architecture, low costs of living and a never ending stream of government funds for all sorts of small-scale experiments support this generation of 'urban players' that literally convert the city into an urban playground for young adults (and increasingly their owne children) -all destined to become professors at some point in their future. aedes ost is celebrating its 25th birthday with a show about this group of people. the discussion i often hear is that all this hype is promotion without content and when i hear about dodgeball tournaments, cooking lessons and beach parties among the many things this generation of new heads is involved, i tend to agree. While I was pushing my friend through the exhibition and quickly gave up, because of the crowd, I was wondering whether this is any different from archigram, superstudio, haus-rucker-co and the like? just a lot of crazy ideas, fun and this aura of something really cool happended back then that somehow altered our way of thinking about space? I am also wondering whether this exists in ny and is just not so visible? or do we need the economic vaccum to produce fun?
.: kaja 7:15 AM
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