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October 18, 2006
Metaforms
Incredible collection of links! Much of it seems quite dense and hard to understand.
I was already pretty familiar with Rem Koolhaas. I own Content and Great Leap Forward, which is about the Pearl River Delta. I also have Koolhaas' DVD on Lagos. I think his approach is interesting and I like his focus on cities in China and the developing world.
I was interested in reading about the Philips Pavilion and all of the backstory.
The main themes with all of these seem to be intricacy, fractals, biological forms, and interactive architecture.
I liked many of the essays, such as "New Babylon" and the ones Karl Chu. It was interesting how each used the metaphor of the labyrinth, althought while Nieuwenhuis describes labyrinthine space as free ("labyrinthine space, within which movement no longer submits to the constraints of given spatial or temporal organization. The labyrinthine form of New Babylonian social space is the direct expression of social independence."), Karl Chu talks about the Minotaur trapper by the architect Daedalus.
Posted by Andrew Doro at October 18, 2006 10:59 PM