Beijing
Chinese capital, Beijing, seen more as an idea or an ideal city rather than a tangible reality that simply evolves over time, is an incubator of a new stage of evolution that will come to life?
SANAA
SANAA’s intentional “scripting” of activities shows us how our architectural intelligence can be employed to reinvigorate our sensibilities in the physical world.
How Do Cities Differ?
The time has come to relinquish our longing for labels, to abandon manifestos and theories. There are no theories of cities; there are only cities.
BIGNESS
Bigness is thus an uncontrollable condition we can diverge or displace from within--not an ideal, not a master plan--and that is why it denies what much of our urbanism has supposed...
Instant City
Contemporary architects have no clear model about how to deal with the brute fact of the enormous size of the 21st-century generic cities, with no clear hierarchy between center and margin...