Pic from oma*amo homepage
VILLE NOUVELLE MELUN SENART, FRANCE, MELUN, 1987
Just remind how Sanford carries out the words you think you already know about the most "well-known" architect of our era. All words are simply as it is, but I think it's always hard to say about sth with exactly right words and terms. Anyway...conglaturations on your 'transformer' in Seoul, Rem. I heard it opened yesterday !!
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Quoto from
"Urbanism after Innocence: Four Projects: The Reinvention of Geometry"
about Rem Koolhaas's urban projects
introduction written by Senford Kwinter, 1992
What types of structure and form are possible today to sustain a maximum sensitivity to material fluctuations simultaneously at all scales, to sustain continual dynamic development over time within an “envelope” that is fast becoming ludicrously narrow?
… it has done this in a way that is consonant with the most compelling and fruitful intellectual developments of our age: The reinvention of geometry and the geometization of the event.
The first, perhaps most general, principle to note is that in OMA’s proposals the argument always takes precedent over the project. In other words, there is always primarily an engine, be it discursive of diagrammatic, never a design that is introduced into the urban milieu to be reconfigured. It is never a question of organizing a space at the outset, but rather of unleashing, triggering, or capturing larger and already existing processes.
… Second is the adamant refusal to repress either the material fact, the economic reality, or the technological brutality of rampant infrastructural systems, ….
… Third, elements are gathered, classified, and distributed never as preformed spaces, objects, or functions but as statistical intensities, pure potentials or virtualities, morphic resonances as variable densities of space-time, activity, or action.
… The fourth axiom has to do with a completely unneurotic belief in the possible freedoms that still lie unconfronted within the type of systems that common wisdom continues to refer to as the “artificial”…. Instead of designing artificial environments, it deploys richly imbricated systems of interacting elements that set in motion rather artificial ecologies that, in turn, take on a genuine self-organizing life of their own.
… it has done this in a way that is consonant with the most compelling and fruitful intellectual developments of our age: The reinvention of geometry and the geometization of the event.
The first, perhaps most general, principle to note is that in OMA’s proposals the argument always takes precedent over the project. In other words, there is always primarily an engine, be it discursive of diagrammatic, never a design that is introduced into the urban milieu to be reconfigured. It is never a question of organizing a space at the outset, but rather of unleashing, triggering, or capturing larger and already existing processes.
… Second is the adamant refusal to repress either the material fact, the economic reality, or the technological brutality of rampant infrastructural systems, ….
… Third, elements are gathered, classified, and distributed never as preformed spaces, objects, or functions but as statistical intensities, pure potentials or virtualities, morphic resonances as variable densities of space-time, activity, or action.
… The fourth axiom has to do with a completely unneurotic belief in the possible freedoms that still lie unconfronted within the type of systems that common wisdom continues to refer to as the “artificial”…. Instead of designing artificial environments, it deploys richly imbricated systems of interacting elements that set in motion rather artificial ecologies that, in turn, take on a genuine self-organizing life of their own.
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