Another Rem Koolhaas!

The Mysterious Abandoned Pod City in Taiwan

or we could look into purchasing these pods...

REM KOOLHAUS

Rem Koolhaas is one of the most interesting and celebrated architects of our epoch. I had the luxury of attending a slide show of his during my time at SFAI. I recommend this below site.

www.oma.nl

BigBoxBusiness as Model

Riffing off the post from Josh and my response to it why not follow the thread of utilizing the corporate model of architecture? I reference architect Kent Suhrbier from the prototype for this show, the MOPA exhibition Immediate Thought. His sketched proposed reclaiming empty store fronts throughout a city and using them as areas to show work. Why not take it global? Wal-Mart opens huge buildings globally as it shuts down it's own older stores leaving huge gaps of urban waste. Ideally, if this show allows us to imagine a future utopia, something needs to happen to these empty buildings. I propose that after the fall of this corporate beast, the art world re-purposes it's architectural shell. Thus instead of creating one Monolithic-All encompassing structure, we reuse a global network of buildings. Art then can be as accessible as your local Wal-Mart. Perhaps naive or simplistic but something to discuss nonetheless.

dreams + reality

Another interesting design challenge. The 2009 Open Architecture Challenge works to combine dreams with solutions to some serious educational challenges.

What problems are we solving?

some thoughts from the past about art institutions and their supporting structures...

inspiration from Makoto Kumagi, monotype (multiple impressions)

http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/andrea_fraser/

Tyrell Corp Building

The Movie: Blade Runner ( ridley Scott 1982 ) Has one of the greatest exemplars of pure Corporate power in the structure that is known as the Tyrell Corp Building. This Massive structure, over 800 stories high dominates a fictitious LA industrial landscape. I have recommend Blade Runner before but i again stress the investigation of the wonderful designs(Syd Mead and Scott) especially for anyone who hasn't seen this well thought out spectacle.

Oh and i recommend the unrevised edition. For some reason the unCG edition of the movie looks better? The models seem more substantial.