1m2/sec stands for the speed of urbanization processes that are generally associated with urban s... more 1m2/sec stands for the speed of urbanization processes that are generally associated with urban sprawl. 08/15 – an idiom in colloquial German describing run-of-the-mill phenomena – stands for the mediocre standards associated with urban development. The formula 1m2/sec 08/15 addresses the modus operandi of contemporary urban production and combines the velocity of land consumption with generally agreed-upon standards. Few know that 08/15 was the designation of a German infantry machine gun issued during the First World War. Model number 08/15 stood for a new system of production. The institutional network established to produce the automatic weapon had all the characteristics of a megamachine, a term used by Lewis Mumford to describe a specific form of collective organization put in place to realize large-scale projects and requiring an efficient bureaucratic apparatus. Assemblies of this type have the tendency to take on a life of their own. Similarly, the mechanism at work in urbanization processes adhere to principles of megamachines, producing a form of 08/15 city. Urbanization entails the deployment of normed components, applied again and again. Each element follows precisely determined standards. One always encounters the same housing and retail developments, with similar densities, identical set backs, and given typologies. Instead of differentiation: a featureless substance framing the reality of contemporary agglomerations.
In construction the architectural object, which is constituted by the arrangement of an endless n... more In construction the architectural object, which is constituted by the arrangement of an endless number of parts and systems, is very likely to be confronted with a kind of disorder, i.e., the linking together of elements of construction that are incongruous & inappropriate. To put things together, or to construct, implies systematic arrangement in accordance with identifiable forms of order. Disorder is identified where the logic of our classifying thinking does not find correspondence with the “order of things” as they are typically envisioned. What seems but a visual disorder could very well be “another” kind of order. This peculiar organization in which fragments of a number of possible coherences share a state of existence without unifying common law is what is to be called the ordering sensibility of heterotopic formations. This paper addresses this ordering sensibility by examining the quality of inter-connectedness among constructional elements.
Dieses Handbuch analysiert zeitgen ssische urbane Ph nomene in Wachstumsregionen am Beispiel der ... more Dieses Handbuch analysiert zeitgen ssische urbane Ph nomene in Wachstumsregionen am Beispiel der thiopischen Hauptstadt Addis Abeba und stellt einen Katalog nachhaltiger Strategien f r die St dtebaupraxis in der 2. und 3. Welt vor.
An experiment in urban planning in Ethiopia's capital city tackles the complex problem of pre... more An experiment in urban planning in Ethiopia's capital city tackles the complex problem of preparing for the myriad needs of a rapidly expanding urban population in a sustainable way. But the project aspires to more: as architects Marc Angelil and Dirk Hebel explain, it also aims at giving citizens a stronger voice in their own development.
In construction the architectural object, which is constituted by the arrangement of an endless n... more In construction the architectural object, which is constituted by the arrangement of an endless number of parts and systems, is very likely to be confronted with a kind of disorder, i.e., the linking together of elements of construction that are incongruous & inappropriate. To put things together, or to construct, implies systematic arrangement in accordance with identifiable forms of order. Disorder is identified where the logic of our classifying thinking does not find correspondence with the “order of things” as they are typically envisioned. What seems but a visual disorder could very well be “another” kind of order. This peculiar organization in which fragments of a number of possible coherences share a state of existence without unifying common law is what is to be called the ordering sensibility of heterotopic formations. This paper addresses this ordering sensibility by examining the quality of inter-connectedness among constructional elements.
Dieses Handbuch analysiert zeitgen ssische urbane Ph nomene in Wachstumsregionen am Beispiel der ... more Dieses Handbuch analysiert zeitgen ssische urbane Ph nomene in Wachstumsregionen am Beispiel der thiopischen Hauptstadt Addis Abeba und stellt einen Katalog nachhaltiger Strategien f r die St dtebaupraxis in der 2. und 3. Welt vor.
1m2/sec stands for the speed of urbanization processes that are generally associated with urban s... more 1m2/sec stands for the speed of urbanization processes that are generally associated with urban sprawl. 08/15 – an idiom in colloquial German describing run-of-the-mill phenomena – stands for the mediocre standards associated with urban development. The formula 1m2/sec 08/15 addresses the modus operandi of contemporary urban production and combines the velocity of land consumption with generally agreed-upon standards. Few know that 08/15 was the designation of a German infantry machine gun issued during the First World War. Model number 08/15 stood for a new system of production. The institutional network established to produce the automatic weapon had all the characteristics of a megamachine, a term used by Lewis Mumford to describe a specific form of collective organization put in place to realize large-scale projects and requiring an efficient bureaucratic apparatus. Assemblies of this type have the tendency to take on a life of their own. Similarly, the mechanism at work in urbanization processes adhere to principles of megamachines, producing a form of 08/15 city. Urbanization entails the deployment of normed components, applied again and again. Each element follows precisely determined standards. One always encounters the same housing and retail developments, with similar densities, identical set backs, and given typologies. Instead of differentiation: a featureless substance framing the reality of contemporary agglomerations.
In construction the architectural object, which is constituted by the arrangement of an endless n... more In construction the architectural object, which is constituted by the arrangement of an endless number of parts and systems, is very likely to be confronted with a kind of disorder, i.e., the linking together of elements of construction that are incongruous & inappropriate. To put things together, or to construct, implies systematic arrangement in accordance with identifiable forms of order. Disorder is identified where the logic of our classifying thinking does not find correspondence with the “order of things” as they are typically envisioned. What seems but a visual disorder could very well be “another” kind of order. This peculiar organization in which fragments of a number of possible coherences share a state of existence without unifying common law is what is to be called the ordering sensibility of heterotopic formations. This paper addresses this ordering sensibility by examining the quality of inter-connectedness among constructional elements.
Dieses Handbuch analysiert zeitgen ssische urbane Ph nomene in Wachstumsregionen am Beispiel der ... more Dieses Handbuch analysiert zeitgen ssische urbane Ph nomene in Wachstumsregionen am Beispiel der thiopischen Hauptstadt Addis Abeba und stellt einen Katalog nachhaltiger Strategien f r die St dtebaupraxis in der 2. und 3. Welt vor.
An experiment in urban planning in Ethiopia's capital city tackles the complex problem of pre... more An experiment in urban planning in Ethiopia's capital city tackles the complex problem of preparing for the myriad needs of a rapidly expanding urban population in a sustainable way. But the project aspires to more: as architects Marc Angelil and Dirk Hebel explain, it also aims at giving citizens a stronger voice in their own development.
In construction the architectural object, which is constituted by the arrangement of an endless n... more In construction the architectural object, which is constituted by the arrangement of an endless number of parts and systems, is very likely to be confronted with a kind of disorder, i.e., the linking together of elements of construction that are incongruous & inappropriate. To put things together, or to construct, implies systematic arrangement in accordance with identifiable forms of order. Disorder is identified where the logic of our classifying thinking does not find correspondence with the “order of things” as they are typically envisioned. What seems but a visual disorder could very well be “another” kind of order. This peculiar organization in which fragments of a number of possible coherences share a state of existence without unifying common law is what is to be called the ordering sensibility of heterotopic formations. This paper addresses this ordering sensibility by examining the quality of inter-connectedness among constructional elements.
Dieses Handbuch analysiert zeitgen ssische urbane Ph nomene in Wachstumsregionen am Beispiel der ... more Dieses Handbuch analysiert zeitgen ssische urbane Ph nomene in Wachstumsregionen am Beispiel der thiopischen Hauptstadt Addis Abeba und stellt einen Katalog nachhaltiger Strategien f r die St dtebaupraxis in der 2. und 3. Welt vor.
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