{"id":1376,"date":"2016-11-04T23:46:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2016-11-05T13:19:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T05:19:35","slug":"dystopian-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/dystopian-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Dystopian Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cArchitecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Lebbeus Woods<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIn 1973, we felt our mission in the avant-garde had run its course, We hadn\u2019t won the war, only a few battles.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Adolfo Natalini<\/em><\/p>\n

WHY?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The war as Lebbeus Woods described is physical violence causing casualty of inhabitants and destruction of city; the war as Adolfo Natalini described is intangible established culture and associating social norms with politics, sociology and philosophy. Both considered architecture in its boarder meaning as a weapon to reconstruct the city as ideology. Architecture should have the power and privilege to critically reshape the society, as architects did for long in history.<\/p>\n

Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n

Architects, during the energetic period of 1960s \u2013 1970s, revaluated the socio-political agenda in the discipline of architecture, at the time they believed there was emergency that architects had a role in designing the future. The myth of Utopian Architecture visualizes the imagination and conceptual nature of architectural design. However, utopia never exists.<\/p>\n

Today architecture, under the materialistic world of consumerism, have been exploited to a tool of strengthening the capitalistic world: the only possible reaction is a return to order, to the once fascinating subjects of searching for better environment of living.<\/p>\n

WHAT?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sino-British Joint Declaration provides Hong Kong a period of 50 years remained unchanged in its way of life until 2047. The stance for remain unchanged is reluctant and refusal to option. What it comes together as we witness is the diminishing freedom and liberty in culture, speech, protest, etc.<\/p>\n

Instead of qualifying the nostalgia of the colonial period, \u201cTo be, or not to be, that is the question\u2026\u201d assuming the negotiation of Hong Kong with China is turning white-hot, what architects can participate in?<\/p>\n

The thesis analogizes dystopia (negative utopia) to the discipline of architecture, questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and more, the stability of society. Amplifying the impact of radical architecture as existential meditation, various scenarios of social conflicts are brought to discussion, in search of design potential of spatial quality and arrangement is required in such debate.<\/p>\n

HOW?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pre-thesis Period: Research and Analysis (Urban Scale)<\/em><\/p>\n

Outline of research. Through a series of mapping, intangible qualities and values in Hong Kong are uncovered in search of design potentials.<\/p>\n

Review 1.0 \u2013 Site Analysis and Precedent Study (Urban Scale)<\/u><\/p>\n

3 emergent sites in Hong Kong, are expected to be designated. Spatial qualities and programmatic arrangement are analyzed in plans, sections and axonometric drawings, in addition to precedent study.<\/p>\n

Review 2.0 \u2013 Methodology (Building Scale)<\/em><\/p>\n

Design prototypes and spatial strategies are developed to manifest the thesis statement in site.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there is no idea in the drawing, there is no idea in the constructed project. That’s the expression of the idea. Architects make drawings that other people build. I make the drawings. If someone wants to build from those, that’s up to them. I feel I’m making architecture. I believe the building comes into being as soon as it’s drawn.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Lebbeus Woods <\/em><\/p>\n

Review 3.0 \u2013 Detail Design <\/em><\/p>\n

Design progress in terms of models and drawings are examined. Different means of presentation will be tested.<\/p>\n

Review 4.0 (Final) – Refinement<\/em><\/p>\n

Detail design and further revisions of the thesis working in both drawing and models.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bibliography 01: Theory<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. Calvino, Italo.Invisible cities<\/em>. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974<\/li>\n
  2. Oesterreicher-Mollwo, Marianne. Surrealism and dadaism: provocative destruction, the path within, and the exacerbation of the problem of a reconciliation of art and life<\/em>. Oxford: Phaidon, 1979.<\/li>\n
  3. Rossi, Aldo, and Peter Eisenman.The architecture of the city<\/em>. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1982.<\/li>\n
  4. Frampton, Kenneth. “Toward a critical regionalism: six points for an architecture of resistance”.Anti-Aesthetic : Essays on Postmodern Culture. <\/em>Port Townsend, Wajsh: Bay Press, 1983.<\/li>\n
  5. Jacobs, Jane.The death and life of great American cities<\/em>. New York: Modern Library, 1993.<\/li>\n
  6. Koolhaas, Rem.Delirious New York: a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan<\/em>. New York: Monacelli Press, 1994<\/li>\n
  7. Byvanck, Valentijn.\u00a0Superstudio: the Middelburg Lectures<\/em>. [Middelburg]: De Vleeshal, 2005.<\/li>\n
  8. Krier, Le\u0301on, Dhiru A. Thadani, and Peter J. Hetzel.\u201cFrom Political Pluralism to Architectural Plurality\u201d. The architecture of community<\/em>. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2009.<\/li>\n
  9. Shelton, Barrie, Justyna Karakiewicz, and Thomas Kvan. The making of Hong Kong: from vertical to volumetric<\/em>. New York, NY: Routledge, 2011<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Bibliography 02: Techniques<\/em><\/p>\n

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    1. Woods, Lebbeus. War and architecture = Rat i arhitektura<\/em>. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.<\/li>\n
    2. 2<\/em>.<\/em> Kipnis, Jeffrey. Perfect acts of architecture<\/em>. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2001.<\/li>\n
    3. Allen, Stan. \u201cNotations and Diagrams: Mapping the Intangible\u201d.Practice: architecture, technique + representation<\/em>. London: Routledge, 2009.g<\/li>\n
    4. Huang, Shengyuan, and Fieldoffice Architects. LIVING IN PLACE<\/em>. Tokyo: TOTO Shuppan, 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Bibliography 03: Seminal Text \/ Current related projects<\/em><\/p>\n

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      1. No-stop City, Archizoom, 1969<\/li>\n
      2. Twelve Ideal Cities, Superstudio, 1971<\/li>\n
      3. Continuous Monument, Superstudio, 1971<\/li>\n
      4. Exodus, or the voluntary prisoners of architecture, Rem Koolhaas, 1972<\/li>\n
      5. Berlin Wall, German Democratic Republic (East Germany), 1961<\/li>\n
      6. Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong Residents, 1989-1993<\/li>\n
      7. 9\/11 Memorial, Michael Arad and Peter Walker, 2011<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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