https://www.ted.com/talks/bjarke_ingels_floating_cities_the_lego_house_and_other_architectural_forms_of_the_future#t-12744
"Design gives form to the future, says architect Bjarke Ingels. In this worldwide tour of his team's projects, journey to a waste-to-energy power plant (that doubles as an alpine ski slope) and the LEGO Home of the Brick-- and catch a glimpse of cutting-edge flood resilience infrastructure in New York City as well as an ambitious plan to create floating, sustainable cities that are adapted to climate change.
Bjarke Ingels · Architect
Bjarke Ingels believes that architecture is the art and science of making sure our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.".
https://www.ted.com/talks/bjarke_ingels_floating_cities_the_lego_house_and_other_architectural_forms_of_the_future#t-12744
"Design gives form to the future, says architect Bjarke Ingels. In this worldwide tour of his team's projects, journey to a waste-to-energy power plant (that doubles as an alpine ski slope) and the LEGO Home of the Brick-- and catch a glimpse of cutting-edge flood resilience infrastructure in New York City as well as an ambitious plan to create floating, sustainable cities that are adapted to climate change.
Bjarke Ingels · Architect
Bjarke Ingels believes that architecture is the art and science of making sure our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.".
Identity (locus), memory (history) and society (politics) in no particular order of importance
With this respect, I strongly suggest you to read Aldo Rossi's The Architecture of the City and the many books that have analysed his work and legacy
Dear NaZia,
The images you sent representing a city as architecture rather than traditional relationship of architecture - city.
Cities nowadays experience drammatic speed of transformations and it's not only rapid growth but decline as well. Uncertainty is one of the main worlds. Considering this, I would list such topics as flexibility, adaptive reuse, recycling
Dear Elena,
I agree about the speed of transformations in cities, but what’s about Architecture-Cities relationship as the question is focusing on?
The age of the city, its years of prosperity, important architects, its years of poor economy, population changes, wealth, and its need for space, and the kind of space. (offices, industrial, residential) for starters. Look at its history.
Dear AJ Al-Akkam,
I do somehow agree with Margot Wiesinger Smith. Architecture-City relationship is quite tenuous. Architecture, the design discipline that deals with single to synthesised unit(s) of the city, only develops coherent correspondence with the city with passing time, prominence (city, project, and/or architect), character and culture, and exposure. And so, I do believe that the concept of place making and city boosterism are important in both understanding and interpreting elements that govern such relationships.
Dear Victor Udemezue Onyebueke ,
The Architecture- City relationship may represent clearly Part-Whole relationship. For that reason many architects or even urban designers have not motivated enough to focus on this relationship.
Dear Margot Wiesinger Smith ,
I agree with all factors you mentioned. However almost all that factors are related to the City. It’s one part of the formula what’s about architecture? and architecture-City relationshi.
I would recommend studying 'Framing places' by Kim Dovey. Even though the book mainly focuses on how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power, it also gives insights regarding the subject of this discussion.
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