GGR217H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Yes Album, Creative Destruction, Urban Design
11 May 2018
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Professor Katharine Rankin Oct. 3, 2016
GGR217 LECTURE 4
UTOPIAN VISIONS
RECAP: UTOPIAN FAILURES/DEGENERATE UTOPIAS
MODERNITY
• Break from tradition, Reason, science, technology, perpetual change, creative destruction,
experience of cities
MODERNISM
• Cultural response to modern experience
MODERNIZATION
• The historical processes shaping modernity and its experience
• What were those visions?
• How were they inspired by and a critique of the industrial city?
• What has actually materialized and fallen away in the execution of these utopias?
• What are some Utopian foundations?
CUBISM
• Interest in using glass in the interior and exterior of a building simultaneously
• Embodying the spirit of the time in architecture
• Shows multiple views in a single structure
• Usually made out of glass
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Document Summary
Modernity: break from tradition, reason, science, technology, perpetual change, creative destruction, experience of cities. Interest in using glass in the interior and exterior of a building simultaneously: embodying the spirit of the time in architecture, shows multiple views in a single structure, usually made out of glass. Pledged his support for skyscrapers as integrated urban design units, with precisely defined functions to fulfill a specific role. D"habitation: the city of today is a dying thing because it is not geometrical. The city of day-to-day living is a dying thing because it is not geometrical. To build in the open would be to replace our present haphazard arrangements, which are all we have today, by a uniform layout. The result of a true geometrical layout is repetition. The result of repetition is standard, the perfect form. Paris, geneva, rio de janeiro, sao paulo, montevideo, buenos aires, algiers, moscow, Antwerp, barcelona, stockholm, nemours, piace: utopian vision.
