October 2008 Archives
Could I have my tutorial after 4 (which means that itl be after my HTS), pretty pretty please!!
Here is the third competition entry, which describes a plot in London bought by the city's estranged Non-Doms and built into a separate, but parallel political entity in the city centre.
I am breaking exodus up into its component parts, and with those parts I am fashioning a fictional re-reading. This transformation of the work forms a re-brief which both describes what exodus was at the same time as describing what it could have been. The Exodus Competition.
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The Exodus Competition
Our cities are full of the marginalized.
Some cities ignore Them.
Some cities hound Them.
Some celebrate Them.
But they are always “Them”
Murfad Nam’a
How could a city encapsulate and celebrate its diversities in a physical form?
The modernist, utilitarian paradigm in urbanism has so far proved inadequate.
Monocentric, divided exquisitely according to functions, potentially endless, and endlessly dead.
Could a city be aggressively divided according to its diversities; be limited, enclosed, and exciting?
We are calling for radical and insightful proposals for new and possibly ludicrous urbanities.
But new urbanities which are firmly set within the even more ludicrous failures of our modern cityscapes.
The site of the competition is metropolitan
The population of
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Each of the four chosen entries spring from a specific historical precedent.
The proposals will be released and critiqued next week.
