Act 5 - Scene 2 - Reading - Erasing Architecture into the System

ERASING ARCHITECTURE INTO THE SYSTEM

(written by Arata Isozaki, translated by Alfred Birnbaum)

(image from http://arata-isozaki-architect.architectsonly.com/)

Another reading about Archigram, 'fun palace' or adaptation into Kenzo's 'festival plaza' and Cedric Price... whoop de do... Let me just stab myself in the eye with a pen whilst I read it to ease the pain.

Is anyone else glazing over at page 33? 'archi-babble' about "such calculated awareness of the time factor related to the enclosing of activities and their interrelationship must extend to an assessment of the valid life-span of the total complex, assessed primarily in socio-urban terms"
Is it just me being ignorant or do the academics sometimes lose the plot, grip on reality and humanity?

'Nuff said, more reading.....
yes, its great, flexible, transportable... its a space frame.  So what? Whats wrong with building a structure from local biodegradable materials, and built exactly where you are going to be building it.  There is no homogeneous approach to design.  I'm ranting again.

Oh wait, here we go, something relevant.  The technology education facility.. "Town Brain", very similar to our "Think-Farm". Very interesting that this was thought about decades before the Internet.

I do like this quote however "If today writing about utopias is a sign of spiritual desolation, then planning them must be a criminal act"   (Cedric Price, 1972)
I wonder is this the very thing we are trying to do, this semester? Do we need to plan for flaws?

*A sigh of relief, definately looking forward to Project 2*