5 Rumors + 1 Vision (June25, 2013 @ NCTU)

5 RUMORS+ 1 VISION

of cities

for design

RUMOR 1:URBAN DESIGN IS DEAD (?)

URBAN DESIGN Est. 1960

Architecture

Urban Planning

Urban RenewalUrban SprawlZoning

Garden City

New Pattern

New Urbanism

URBAN DESIGN Est. 1960

Architecture

Urban Planning

" Urban Design has reached a dead end...While the task grows in urgency and com-plexity, the disciplinary main-streaming of urban design has transformed it from potentially broad and hopeful conceptual category into aincreasingly rig-id, restrictive, and boring set of orthodoxies." -- Michale Sorkin, <The Ends of Ur-ban Design>, Urban Design

URBAN DESIGN UNDERSTANDING

URBAN DESIGN UNDERSTANDING

RUMOR II:LANDSCAPE URBANISMSAVES THE WORLD(?)

Charles Waldheim

LANDSCAPEsaves the world!

Charles Waldheim

LANDSCAPEsaves the world!

Mohsen MostafaviCharles Waldheim

LANDSCAPEsaves the world! ECOLOGICAL

URBANISMsaves the world!

Mohsen MostafaviCharles Waldheim

LANDSCAPEsaves the world! ECOLOGICAL

URBANISMsaves the world!

Mohsen Mostafavi Pierre BelangerCharles Waldheim

LANDSCAPEsaves the world! ECOLOGICAL

URBANISMsaves the world!

INFRASTRUCTURE

saves the world!

Mohsen Mostafavi Pierre BelangerCharles Waldheim

LANDSCAPEsaves the world! ECOLOGICAL

URBANISMsaves the world!

INFRASTRUCTURE

saves the world!

Landscape As

Infrastructure

URBANISM

URBANISM

We don’t have tosave the world!

What if we simply declare that there is no crisis-redefine our relationship with the city not as its makers but as its mere subjects, as its supporters? More than ever, the city is all we have.What Ever Happened to Urbanism-S,M,L,XLRem Koolhaas

RUMOR III:GENERIC CITY(?)

“Now we are left with a world without ur-banism, only architecture, ever more ar-chitecture. The neatness of architecture is its seduction; it defines, excludes, lim-its, seperates from the “rest”-but it also consumes....”

Generic City is about SAMENESS

Cities with no history, no culture, no Difference.

GENERIC

GENERIC = DIVERSITY

“Together, all these breaks - with scales,with architectural composition, with tradition, with transparency, with ethics-imply the final, most radical break: Bigness is no longer part of any urban tissue.It exists; at most, it coexists.Its subtext is FUCK context.”Bigness, S,M,L,XL

RUMOR IV:FUCK CONTEXT(?)

Tim Stonor andSPACE SYNTAX

FUCK CONTEXT

FUCK CONTEXT

RUMOR V:A PHYSIST SOLVES CITIES(?)

Geoffrey West

“ Give me the SIZE of a city, any city in the world. You name it!I can tell you almost EVERYTHING about the city, even I’ve never been there...”

URBANISM?

'SCIENTIFIC' URBANISM (?)

ONE VISIONFOR DESIGN(ER)

" So when we talk about design today, and par-ticularly when we read about it in the popular press, we're often talking about products like these. Amusing? Yes. Desirable? Maybe. Impor-tant? Not so very. But this wasn't always the way. And I'd like to suggest that if we take a different view of design, and focus less on the object and more on design thinking as an ap-proach, that we actually might see the result in a bigger impact. " ---Tim Brown, IDEO

INNOVATIVE THINKING

ARCHITECT?

"Maybe, architecture doesn't have to be stu-pid after all. Liberated from the obligation to construct, it can become a way of thinking about anything - a discipline that represents relationships, proportions, connections, effects, the diagram of everything." ---Rem Koolhaas 2004, OMA

SYSTEMS THINKING

REAL INNOVATION ARISES FROM UNDERSTANDING OF REALITY

ONE VISION:CROSS-DISCIPLINARY,

TRUE IMPACT

5 RUMORS+ 1 VISION

of cities

for design