Here's to looking at you...neighbor

2012-05-17T01:01:01-04:00

If the conditions that address contemporary architectural practice are asking "How do we live in the largest and most complex cities that have ever existed?”, architecture’s apparent answer is “We stare at each other from a thousand yards distant in our well-lit living rooms.”

A progressive field like architecture would ostensibly look to its precedents faced with similar predicaments and critically adapt those techniques that have proven successful. Though the motivations for contemporary ultra-urbanization are nascent, the condition is similar to that addressed by functionalist plans like Corbusier’s Plan Voisin, which sought to address a perceived problem with Paris’s roots in medieval planning by plowing under depressed neighborhoods to make way for cruciform towers that provided light and air for all. Another Corb project, the Unité continued this interest through the use of double-loaded corridors in plan and section to allow cross-ventilation and a double engagement wit...

Archinect - But I Digress...

Here's to looking at you...neighbor