Lebbeus Woods
System Wein with Christoph Kumpusch , 2005 is an experimental sketch of Vienna’s 1st District, and shows how it might find a way to change, even radically, without rejecting its […]
Category Archives: Visionary Architecture
Cedric Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt
I now take the West Coast Express home from work. I have a short commute and rather enjoy the quiet, relaxing travel from Vancouver. I am on the train for […]
Ant Farm
I am currently reading Michael Sorkin’s, All Over the Map Writings on Buildings and Cities (2011), and while I will be talking about it in a future blog, I wanted […]
Relocating
I am relocating and it is not to a neighbouring community or across to the other side of town but across the country. I am now knee deep in the daunting […]
Continuous Moment
If on arriving at Trade I had not read the city’s name written in big letters, I would have thought I was landing at the same airport from which I […]
Buckminster Fuller and the Geodesic Dome
Buckminster Fuller, US Pavillion in Montreal 1967 I saw that Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area opened in San Francisco Museum of Modern Art at the end March […]
The City seen as a Garden of Ideas
I have borrowed my title for this post from Peter Cook, a British architect and founder of Archigram, a collaboration of six architects known for architecture through drawing. The City, Seen […]
Metabolists
In the late 1950’s a group of young Japanese architects and city planners joined together to form the Metabolist group. They conceived of cities as living, moving and evolving organisms […]
Cedric Price & the Fun Palace
’Now! Now!’ cried the Queen. ‘Faster! Faster!’ … Alice looked round her in great surprise. ‘Why, I do believe we’ve been under this tree the whole time! Everything’s just as […]
