11 March
2004 Madrid terrorist train bombing
Jencks/labeling
1999.03.11
doing
1999.03.11
developments, ideas
ideas
2000.03.11
PMA
Christopher Columbus Monument
2001.03.11
Sheraton chair
2001.03.11 16:09
the Cathedral of Ice
2002.03.11 12:32
Lebbeus Woods and 12 Monkeys
2002.03.11 12:32
ideas
letter collection
2003.03.11
Re: koolhaas on charlie
2004.03.11 11:21
...and speaking of random tangents
2007.03.11 13:54
2007.03.11 14:35
| |
Jencks/labeling
1999.03.11
Elliot,
I can't help but think that you did not read Re: city making and city breaking because my point about Berlin involves its entire history over the last 100 years, where it would be hard to argue against a pervasive (and mostly unique) creative-destructive pattern that even includes a spliting in two! You seem to be missing the point that Berlin's "growth" (as you put it) throughout the 20th century was/is both creative and destructive. The best way to describe Berlin over the last 100 years is to call it metabolic. Just because one city manifests a metabolic pattern, doesn't mean all cities have to exhibit the same pattern, however, over the next 100 years there may indeed be many more cities that are metabolic--Beirut and Kosovo, and maybe even Kobe, to name a few, already seem to have a head start.
I feel my "argument" is sound, especially if you read all my content. And, for the record, I say that Berlin of the 20th century presents a (or is it the?) prime example of metabolic [growth], that is, creative-destructive urbanism.
Steve
developments
2000.03.11
...Otherwise Eyes became [Signs of] Otherwise Eyes, a bifocal register, half sinister, half dexterous, that imagines architecture differently.
ideas
2000.03.11
17. ...elevating the Bye House over the Mayor's House with the undulating ground plane of the Bye House becoming the roof of the palazzo section of the Mayor's House.
18. ...changing the wall of the Bye House into a digital terrain, and turning the access bridge of the house into a meander.
2001.03.11
ideas
2003.03.11
11. Unthinking an Architecture: Atypical
12. "Anonymous Saint appears again while it's Biblically Flooding."
|