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"Visionary Cities Project" applies urbanist archetypes to Damien Hirst's blank development site

Viaduct City, credit Daisey Martinez. Image courtesy of Alexander Eisenschmidt.

Detail of Wall City, credit Anton Tonchev. Image courtesy of Alexander Eisenschmidt.

Disc City, credit Adam Dwornik. Image courtesy of Alexander Eisenschmidt.

Node City, credit Alexandra Maksymec.  Image courtesy of Alexander Eisenschmidt.

Each landmass focuses on two schemes (such as Howard’s Garden City, Hilberseimer’s Groszstadt, or Tange’s Tokyo Bay Plan) and, in turn, couples these with its adjacent urban islands. What results is a composite of 20th century visionary architectural urbanism. Image courtesy of Alexander Eisenschmidt.

Detail of Modernist Campo: A map that assembles historical architectural visions of the city and blends different schemes to speculate on new forms of urbanism. Each landmass focuses on two schemes (such as Howard’s Garden City, Hilberseimer’s Groszstadt, or Tange’s Tokyo Bay Plan) and, in turn, couples these with its adjacent urban islands. What results is a composite of 20th century visionary architectural urbanism. Image courtesy of Alexander Eisenschmidt.

Detail of Pixel City, credit Hannah Hortick. Image courtesy of Alexander Eisenschmidt.

Detail of Island City, credit Miguel Macias. Image courtesy of Alexander Eisenschmidt.

Wall City, credit Anton Tonchev. Image courtesy of Alexander Eisenschmidt.

Detail of Disc City, credit Adam Dwornik. Image courtesy of Alexander Eisenschmidt.

Island City, credit Miguel Macias. Image courtesy of Alexander Eisenschmidt.

Detail of Viaduct City, credit Daisey Martinez. Image courtesy of Alexander Eisenschmidt.

Detail of Node City, credit Alexandra Maksymec.  Image courtesy of Alexander Eisenschmidt.

Pixel City, credit Hannah Hortick. Intended to be viewed with color-filters or 3D glasses. Image courtesy of Alexander Eisenschmidt.

Modernist Campo: A map that assembles historical architectural visions of the city and blends different schemes to speculate on new forms of urbanism. Each landmass focuses on two schemes (such as Howard’s Garden City, Hilberseimer’s Groszstadt, or Tange’s Tokyo Bay Plan) and, in turn, couples these with its adjacent urban islands. What results is a composite of 20th century visionary architectural urbanism. Image courtesy of Alexander Eisenschmidt.

Each landmass focuses on two schemes (such as Howard’s Garden City, Hilberseimer’s Groszstadt, or Tange’s Tokyo Bay Plan) and, in turn, couples these with its adjacent urban islands. What results is a composite of 20th century visionary architectural urbanism. Image courtesy of Alexander Eisenschmidt.