This
reading was very interesting. What always strikes me when reading this sort of
literature is actually how slowly the human population has 'advanced'. It seems
as though we have not even come close to fulfilling our the 'technological
potential' dreamed about 50 or 60 years ago and in allot of ways we have lost
the experimental approach to humanity that Archigram and some of the early
modernist had.
Some dot point from this reading that I want to look further into in relation to the projects this semester are as
follows:
* The idea that Mass has no place in the future
* Freedom and indeterminacy go hand in hand. It is a common human goal however are not finite tangible things.
* Modernism- by definition is a constant state of becoming.
*Projects should have living organic properties eg disposable sections, plug in vistas.
Some ideas on architecture generally that I found interesting were:
* the idea that ' a composition is never complete' (modular elements repeated to suggest imminent extension)
* A search for relationships- elements not obviously belonging together.
*Programming as a process configured by the used
*life is negotiated not pre-programed
*'scene machine' - game theory
*Kit structures
* Architecture to respond to emergent situations not established ones.
* A future were we can all be nomads if we wish.
* personalised architecture- 'a continuous creative recomposition of architecture. A process configured by the user.'
Lastly I think a great quote to inspire this semesters work is that
" (architecture ) with no capacity to change can only become slums or ancient monuments" - Archigram 1966
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