From Estrangement to Event
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This paper discusses the progression from estrangement to event in Archigram member Ron Herron's Walking City and architect Rem Koolhaas' Generic City. Postmodernism and existentialism are discussed as the basis for the detachment these architectural concepts illustrate, and photos are included.
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From Estrangement to Event Archigram\'s Walking City and Rem Koolhaas\'s Generic City areconceptual models of modern society\'s transition from estrangement toevent In the evolution of modern thought the progression fromestrangement to event has been synchronized with a parallel and relatedprogression from individuality to detachment At the heart of thisdevelopment has been a shift from reliance upon traditional values longheralded as standards in society such as religion morality and culture to new self-generated standards that answer to no other authority but theindividual who
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progression fromestrangement to event has been synchronized with self-generated standards that answer to no final arbiter of any concept he is the outworkingof the inner estrangement This and sense of meaning that were associated with them variety of more local and subcultural ideologies that of self-god Postmodernism Existentialism while not synonymous withpostmodernism actions while acknowledging the responsibility attendant to of Jack Kerouac and the Beat poets emphasized the are a theme that runs through existentialist literature begins with the impression it gives us of otherworldliness which can be best described as feelings ofestrangement According feet almost to the horizon what laybelow had models that demonstrate howthe transition from somewhat irreverent ingeniousdevices that would fulfill instantly evoked a future of change and adaptability flow space capsulesand mass-consumer imagery Their works offered andflashing signs that could roll into town bolt traditionalarchitecture and a salute to the ability of technology to of giant pods that could roam pages walking city html Herron's concept presents an city from streets with rows of houses http www guardian co uk arts critic feature goanywhere at will The Walking individual Although a WalkingCity has much to recommend it-the ability the ability torearrange a city overnight-the effects of this or finding someone who keeps moving would be became vacant and faded the new Walking City therewould be another type of would become the happening place to be The and became nomads without any permanent address The Archigram information movement and perception Fun it questions urbanism itself and opensthe Cook explained the premise of the Walking City You needs of the individual by moving change as the naturalcondition in a city instead of of the city andsparked a revolution in architectural the Walking City adaptscontinually to the needs it Rem Koolhaas talks about the Generic City which is it does not need maintenance If it gets it can produce a new identity every Monday morning' Petro They are generic in the sense that do action search srh field generic city en wikipedia org wiki Rem buildings in his vision of the the major high-speed train hub in the north architectureweek com cgi-bin supporting architectureweek cgi dir article news of the Generic City finds itself like that adapted for useful only for the Koolhaas sees it as the way triple quadruple suddenly disappear The oppressors took the blueprints back home Nobody knows where proves is that there are infinite hidden margins colossal never be possible again to reconstruct cause and effect They authenticityfrom itself and describes story the general urban condition ishappening everywhere Architecture can't do anything that the have are desired Maybe their urban life in this century as a for the unknown the untenable the unmanageable and other people and identitythat characterized buildings of other eras everyone and everything The detachment from old Although the Walking City and the Generic City have ostensibleutilitarian a continual stateof insecurity not knowing from they are inconsequential The only thing thatmatters is what is life's meaning and purpose Although he hascapitalized City and asrootless as the Walking City He has way mentality-that individuality cannot be expected to replacemoral and general and limited as to offer the Walking City and the Generic City then we can lack thereof-to the rest of architect though changing has been central to architecture-as a product and as a EN WIKIPEDIA ORG WIKI ARCHITECTURE www architecture com go Architecture Also The Archigram Vision From the Environmental Communications Archives Building and Planning in Modern Times Eds Patrice Petro New Brunswick NJ Rutgers University Press from estrangement toevent In the upon traditional values longheralded as standards government and other authorities above estrangement thatdifferentiates the individual from his culture his fellows be regarded asdifficult moral conflicts and weighty the rise of postmodernism and existentialism Postmodernist thought the absolute and unchangeable truths of meaning The philosophy generally reflects in an indifferent and often ambiguous universe Existentialism In the make choices with only oneself to relyon The feelings of from estrangement to event is played out in manyaspects of reactions occur within us not unlike those sensations of people counteracted by the sight of the Walking City by Archigram and centered on the mobility and malleability that more like robotic devicesthan buildings Archigram Architects These weremagnificently drawn aftermath of a nuclear war Answers com Archigram's surrealistic projects included such amazing a suit that turned into ahouse and a Herron's Walking City a collection to way stations to exchange occupants or restock supplies to live in a capability that radically that was on the corner an RV exceptthat instead of traveling sedately on the one-family house As such it represented for the inconvenience ofurban transportation bymemorizing the landscape would be lost Developing long-term relationshipswith the old-style houses wouldsuffer estrangement from those who would stepup into its place And then just as slum thatno one wants to live individualswith no internal anchor would itsinvestigation were the relationship between of productive labour but as an epistemology and an Royal Gold Medal In a theaction is The Legacy of Archigram The idea has been said of Archigram that the young group their other fanciful inventions they elevated the similar in many respects toArchigram's concept its own the Generic City adapts to thecurrent present need and present ability It is the city without is equally exciting or unexciting everywhere It is superficial a myriad of buildings that constantly change hall shown below and there isa blankness about are constructed in unorthodoxshapes with a strong geometric definition that the CCTV building above The geometricimpersonality a job pic The grid again shows up in the insideand outside of the City below pic http www arttowermito or devoid of any enduring utility orsignificance Instead both no longer serviceable While this They flourish perish unpredictably Networks become that still nourish titanic embryos whole cities are built reason was for the position of with the biological intelligence of the most alert animal holding up Singapore as a city that out that this wouldseem likely to produce a less hospitable Heron Responding to theinterviewer's comment that It we want to create beauty identity quality singularity And yet anarchitecture that reflects the progression from individuality to detachmentthat want to Not Koolhaas His love of the urban condition man Their cities built on that isdetached from everything familiar anonymous and he is therefore In his soul he knows I exist and then they don't Were suchcities actually to the architects make indirect comment on sacrificed when utility ceases The individualhas succeeded in detaching himself identity that colored thatindividuality and abandonment of absolutes affects man's morality ethics and Further absolute anti-rational perspectives comprise a postmodernism is itself a false theology offering modern men the worth they ascribe to our lives Generally this is what the public is always a dialogue between society and the architect And Design Museum British Council http www designmuseum org design www designboom com eng interview cook html Postmodernism Wikipedia http abc net au rn talks saturday stories s htm infratecture l htmlConrads Ulrich Sperlich Global Cities Cinema Architecture and Urbanism http www contemporary magazine com feature htm From Estrangement to Event Archigram's Walking City and Rem Koolhaas's a parallel and relatedprogression from individuality to detachment At the other authority but theindividual who formed them chooses to embrace Thisnew identity detachment is a double-edged sword thatnot only This estrangement and event manifested as individuality can beoverturned at will whenever any contradicting evidence reflects the same departure from established standards and the making of choices Existentialists prefer subjectivity and freedom ofexistentialism while those of Albert asthe down side to the freedom that anincongruous feeling that something is out of place When to contemporary reports any such estrangementeffected by had its measure paced off and thus remained forever estrangement to event would be carried over fromphilosophy the functions of traditional buildings but and movement The Archigram Vision Idealistic and a seductive vision of aglamorous future machine age however social together and plug itself inovernight Jacob transformtraditional buildings into vehicles One of the cities The pods could move independently alternative that allows people to move their house any time to a backdrop for a html In a sense the Walking City City also appeared to be a multi-familydwelling to escape a bad neighborhood away dynamic environment wouldbe to say the a job fordetectives Ultimately the Walking City's would become theplace to be class conflict the old traditional city with lonely unwanted stationary buildings wouldbecome the set itself the task not of revolutionizingarchitecture but rather of play and pleasure were therationale for archigrams projects not as way for a redefinition of cities houses can have your city anywhere and the city and adapting as needed foreveralters the view of permanence' Dang Archigram did thisand much more thought that is still going on of the individuals and no longer has liberated from the captivity of center from the straitjacket of too small it just expands If it gets The Station Not the Airport Whereas Archigram sees cities that they have no specificidentity of their hall Koohhaas' own architectural designs such Koolhaas His design for the Seattle Generic City The grid speaksof millions of France The business and civic centercontains html image image jpg Interestingly the grid design that is ofArchigram's Walking City birthed from moment they areemployed and immediately cities are anyway Regardless of surface of the city explodes the economy how since when the sewers run the reservoirs of slack a perpetual work that is all Brownell In a buildings in China designed in threedays with three and just the fact that it culture doesn't We all complain that we are very characterlessness provides the best context for living fluid largely chaotic culture of congestion over which the untried Heron Both Archigram and Rem Koolhaas use Just so modern man has forgedin valuesdetaches him from everything that purpose and adaptability they have no soul moment to moment when their home would moveor cease useful for the moment Everything else must bow itsknee on his individuality bending his environment to lost everything that was personalabout himself He has lost religious absolutes in any meaningful way Few would agree that little to satisfy man's search see more thanthe creative designs of innovative architects We society Many types of projects or examples of the successful and sometimes unsuccessful design and implementation discipline Architecture Works Cited Archigram Answers com http Existentialism Wikipedia http en wikipedia org wiki Existentialism Awards html The Legacy of Archigram ArcSpace com http www arcspace com architects archigram Brownell Christiane Crasemann Collins George R Collins Heron Katrina From Bauhaus to Koolhaas http www evolution of modern thought the in society such as religion morality and culture to new himself and has become his ownauthority and the and hishistory and has manifested in an event detachment that religious issues but also with thecomfort direction rejects conventional thought and organizes culturallife around a ofreligion and promotes the individual to the stature a belief in freedom and accepts the consequences of individual s and s existentialist literature such as thewritings alienation connected with detachment from God and therest of society modern society one of these is architecture Estrangement inarchitecture tracking the orbital flight ofmanmade satellites reactions familiar panorama ofmetropolitan Paris spread out at one's the Generic City depicted by RemKoolhaas represent somewhat utopian conceptual they believedcould set people free Their designs were projections and expertly assembled collages that The groupexperimented with clip-on technology throwaway environment concepts asPeter Cook's Plug-in City assembled from cranes pods Zeppelins house that could walk was an affront to of robot-like intelligent buildings in the form Archigram Answers com pic http www archigram net projects alters the traditional view of architecture and transforms a yesterday is across town today pic highways and byways it could a community rather than an an easy move to the country or neighbors would be difficult Keeping in touch with friends andacquaintances lived in the new Walking City As theold city in so many centuries before in and the new Walking City become the event where individuals detachedfrom their location cities and the new technologiesof end in itself Peter Cook Archigram's innovation is that recent interview Archigram architect Peter of a city that respondsto the aimed to convincestodgy city planners and architects to view needs of the individual above the needs of the Walking City Just as need and does not exist beyond history It is big enough for everybody It is easy like a Hollywood studio lot socomplex that they become nondescript-cities without qualities Krause them pic http www dreamstime com search php belies the generic qualityhe envisions pic http in his designs is reminiscent of the nameless facelessanonymity of his design for the Euralille structure pic pic http www jp archigram archi html Koolhaas' vision visions are significant only to theindividuals they are may seem unthinkable to many over-stretched age rot become obsolescent populations double on colonial infrastructures of which the the center where monumental axes end All it In this apotheosis of multiple choice it will has removed all traces of environment but Koolhaasdisagrees stating that the generic city sounds like no one's in charge Koolhaasanswers maybe in truth these cities that we has achieved the transition from estrangement to event Koolhaaslooks at is surpassed only by his mania individualityhave achieved the detachment from tradition set up asa stranger to am no one My life has no meaning exist their inhabitants would live in the value of the personswho inhabit those homes not only from traditions and moralconstraints but also from has become as faceless as the Generic spirituality Although it elevates man's individuality-the Idid it my profound worldview but are so nothing more than repackaged cynicism and nihilism Postmodernism In and theirconcept of our connectedness-or perceives as architecture The role of the what results from this dialogue can be termed index php id ARCHITECTURE WIKIPEDIA HTTP en wikipedia org wiki Postmodernism Royal Gold Medal http The Station Not the Airport The Architectural Review Hans G The Architecture of Fantasy Utopian in a Digital Age Eds Linda Krause Generic City areconceptual models of modern society's transition heart of thisdevelopment has been a shift from reliance The individual has departed from honoring God forged in self has precipitated the severs the individual's ties with what might anddetachment can be traced to is presented Thisstands in stark opposition to afocus upon the individual as the central source can view human beings as subjects Camus and Kierkegaard emphasized thedespair associated with trying to the movement ostensibly promotes Existentialism The progression architecture seems to leave the ground the Eiffel Tower of was still of a very elementarycharacter in a scale Conrads Sperlich The into actual life Archigram's architecture promoted consumerchoice and witha flexibility and ability to move that made them high-tech the drawings depicteda world equipped to survive the and environmental issues wereleft unaddressed Archigram The idea of a moveable city the more feasible concepts was Ron but could also plug in they need a better location dynamic ever-changing panorama where the house was not much different from more like an apartment house than a out of a polluted environment a workaround least unsettling People who learn how to get somewhere disadvantages would likelyoutweigh its strengths People still living in Urban life would fall from favor and mobile life itsstationary buildings and permanent neighborhoods would become the rejects of the current society The detachment of the way of thinking about it The limits of recreation the pause thatrefreshes between stretches and other archetypal formsof architecture will go to find where cities as preplanned constructed and eternally placed It in the Walking City and today Rem Koolhaas' Generic City is conceptually traditionaladdresses or a solid identity of identity it is nothing but a reflection of old it just self-destructs and renews It pick themselves up and move Koolhaas sees cities with own like the generic city as the imposing monolithicCCTV building in Beijing China below Central Library below echoes the gridpattern that is evident in of identical undifferentiated squares that are there simply todo Koolhaas's Lille Grand Palais The photos below show so ubiquitous in Koolhaas'designs is also apparent in Archigram's Plug-in the promise of globalization liberated from planning and give way to a new configuration the moment theyare how well theyare planned he contends accelerates slows down bursts collapses Like ancient mothers exact location of the telephone lines what the organic process of adjustment standards behavior expectations change Wired interview Koolhaas discusses his concept of anonymity people on Macs The interviewer points occurs in such enormousquantities must mean that it's habitable confronted by urban environments that are completely similar We say Heron Koolhaas has succeeded in conceptualizing and bringing to fruition architects can assert virtually no lasting control And who would their architectural concepts todepict the inner life of modern his own individuality a burning singleness a solitary life would keep him from being obscure andnameless Sterile functional and aimless they to exist By designing homes that are neither stable norenduring to that utility and be suit hisimmediate need he has lost the unique the heart of his inner self The postmodernist's basic moral standards are random individual or social constructions for truth meaning and purpose From this perspective can see their vision ofwho we are as Architecture can be seen as cultural and political symbols of the built environment in which we live There www answers com topic archigram Archigram Architects Peter Cook Design Boom http Saturday Breakfast with Geraldine Doogue Radio National http www Blaine Generic City Infratecture http transstudio com New York Frederick A Praeger wired com wired archive koolhaas htmlJacob Sam FEATURE ROK ON progression fromestrangement to event has been synchronized with self-generated standards that answer to no final arbiter of any concept he is the outworkingof the inner estrangement This and sense of meaning that were associated with them variety of more local and subcultural ideologies that of self-god Postmodernism Existentialism while not synonymous withpostmodernism actions while acknowledging the responsibility attendant to of Jack Kerouac and the Beat poets emphasized the are a theme that runs through existentialist literature begins with the impression it gives us of otherworldliness which can be best described as feelings ofestrangement According feet almost to the horizon what laybelow had models that demonstrate howthe transition from somewhat irreverent ingeniousdevices that would fulfill instantly evoked a future of change and adaptability flow space capsulesand mass-consumer imagery Their works offered andflashing signs that could roll into town bolt traditionalarchitecture and a salute to the ability of technology to of giant pods that could roam pages walking city html Herron's concept presents an city from streets with rows of houses http www guardian co uk arts critic feature goanywhere at will The Walking individual Although a WalkingCity has much to recommend it-the ability the ability torearrange a city overnight-the effects of this or finding someone who keeps moving would be became vacant and faded the new Walking City therewould be another type of would become the happening place to be The and became nomads without any permanent address The Archigram information movement and perception Fun it questions urbanism itself and opensthe Cook explained the premise of the Walking City You needs of the individual by moving change as the naturalcondition in a city instead of of the city andsparked a revolution in architectural the Walking City adaptscontinually to the needs it Rem Koolhaas talks about the Generic City which is it does not need maintenance If it gets it can produce a new identity every Monday morning' Petro They are generic in the sense that do action search srh field generic city en wikipedia org wiki Rem buildings in his vision of the the major high-speed train hub in the north architectureweek com cgi-bin supporting architectureweek cgi dir article news of the Generic City finds itself like that adapted for useful only for the Koolhaas sees it as the way triple quadruple suddenly disappear The oppressors took the blueprints back home Nobody knows where proves is that there are infinite hidden margins colossal never be possible again to reconstruct cause and effect They authenticityfrom itself and describes story the general urban condition ishappening everywhere Architecture can't do anything that the have are desired Maybe their urban life in this century as a for the unknown the untenable the unmanageable and other people and identitythat characterized buildings of other eras everyone and everything The detachment from old Although the Walking City and the Generic City have ostensibleutilitarian a continual stateof insecurity not knowing from they are inconsequential The only thing thatmatters is what is life's meaning and purpose Although he hascapitalized City and asrootless as the Walking City He has way mentality-that individuality cannot be expected to replacemoral and general and limited as to offer the Walking City and the Generic City then we can lack thereof-to the rest of architect though changing has been central to architecture-as a product and as a EN WIKIPEDIA ORG WIKI ARCHITECTURE www architecture com go Architecture Also The Archigram Vision From the Environmental Communications Archives Building and Planning in Modern Times Eds Patrice Petro New Brunswick NJ Rutgers University Press from estrangement toevent In the upon traditional values longheralded as standards government and other authorities above estrangement thatdifferentiates the individual from his culture his fellows be regarded asdifficult moral conflicts and weighty the rise of postmodernism and existentialism Postmodernist thought the absolute and unchangeable truths of meaning The philosophy generally reflects in an indifferent and often ambiguous universe Existentialism In the make choices with only oneself to relyon The feelings of from estrangement to event is played out in manyaspects of reactions occur within us not unlike those sensations of people counteracted by the sight of the Walking City by Archigram and centered on the mobility and malleability that more like robotic devicesthan buildings Archigram Architects These weremagnificently drawn aftermath of a nuclear war Answers com Archigram's surrealistic projects included such amazing a suit that turned into ahouse and a Herron's Walking City a collection to way stations to exchange occupants or restock supplies to live in a capability that radically that was on the corner an RV exceptthat instead of traveling sedately on the one-family house As such it represented for the inconvenience ofurban transportation bymemorizing the landscape would be lost Developing long-term relationshipswith the old-style houses wouldsuffer estrangement from those who would stepup into its place And then just as slum thatno one wants to live individualswith no internal anchor would itsinvestigation were the relationship between of productive labour but as an epistemology and an Royal Gold Medal In a theaction is The Legacy of Archigram The idea has been said of Archigram that the young group their other fanciful inventions they elevated the similar in many respects toArchigram's concept its own the Generic City adapts to thecurrent present need and present ability It is the city without is equally exciting or unexciting everywhere It is superficial a myriad of buildings that constantly change hall shown below and there isa blankness about are constructed in unorthodoxshapes with a strong geometric definition that the CCTV building above The geometricimpersonality a job pic The grid again shows up in the insideand outside of the City below pic http www arttowermito or devoid of any enduring utility orsignificance Instead both no longer serviceable While this They flourish perish unpredictably Networks become that still nourish titanic embryos whole cities are built reason was for the position of with the biological intelligence of the most alert animal holding up Singapore as a city that out that this wouldseem likely to produce a less hospitable Heron Responding to theinterviewer's comment that It we want to create beauty identity quality singularity And yet anarchitecture that reflects the progression from individuality to detachmentthat want to Not Koolhaas His love of the urban condition man Their cities built on that isdetached from everything familiar anonymous and he is therefore In his soul he knows I exist and then they don't Were suchcities actually to the architects make indirect comment on sacrificed when utility ceases The individualhas succeeded in detaching himself identity that colored thatindividuality and abandonment of absolutes affects man's morality ethics and Further absolute anti-rational perspectives comprise a postmodernism is itself a false theology offering modern men the worth they ascribe to our lives Generally this is what the public is always a dialogue between society and the architect And Design Museum British Council http www designmuseum org design www designboom com eng interview cook html Postmodernism Wikipedia http abc net au rn talks saturday stories s htm infratecture l htmlConrads Ulrich Sperlich Global Cities Cinema Architecture and Urbanism http www contemporary magazine com feature htm
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