Screenshot from “Spacial Bodies,” by AUJIK, from Kuriositas.
Here, courtesy of the website Kuriositas, is the city of modern architecture’s secret desire. The video of this imagined place is called “Spacial Bodies,” by AUJIK. As described by Kuriositas, it “depicts the urban landscape and architectural bodies as an autonomous living and self-replicating organism. Domesticated and cultivated only by its own nature. A vast concrete vegetation, oscillating between order and chaos.” In short, it is the intended consequence of intercourse among the architectural theories of Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Moshe Safdie, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and who knows what else. Filmed in Osaka, Japan. Here, residents every day get to experience the untamed order of the wild. Lucky them! If the image above already raises the hairs on your neck, go ahead and watch the video. It is architecture on LSD. Of course, this is a vision of design in submission to nature’s whim rather than design emergent from nature’s order.
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But for modernists it is not about the inhabitants or users of a building, its all about its designer. It is unlikely that real clients will engage architects to produce that sort of thing, but that sort of thing is what they really want to design. I believe, reaching back before modernism, there were never any, or maybe very, very few, architects who were, as they’d say today, architects on paper who intend no actual commissions but are satisfied to be on a faculty producing architecture that is valid only in theory. I know one in Providence, who was an architect on paper until he got a number of very important traditional commissions, and now is back to being an architect on paper, except that because of his celebrity he gets actual commissions – not exactly to produce modernist loop-the-loops, which people obviously could not live in, but sad enough stuff anyway.
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Unthinkable. And people are supposed to be inhabiting those buildings? And in what free-energy future might such a thing actually happen?
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