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Adaptive Cities Through the Post Pandemic Lens, 2023
The pandemic forced us with the task of finding solutions to a wide range of issues, and the hist... more The pandemic forced us with the task of finding solutions to a wide range of issues, and the historic dichotomy of town and country, especially relevant since the beginning of the Anthropocene –if we use the Industrial Revolution as its starting point–, is being addressed once again in the proposals presented to solve the problems of the city of the future. Nature is calling and we are told the answer to a more humane city is a more ‘natural’ city.
AMPS PROCEEDINGS SERIES 25 - Urban Assemblage: The City as Architecture, Media, AI and Big Data, 2021
Why analyze the history of the garden city? Because despite its conceptual failure in its materia... more Why analyze the history of the garden city? Because despite its conceptual failure in its materializations, its ideological and morphological conceptual success is undeniable. In a world with problems of overpopulation, access to housing, mobility and ecological collapse, the garden city continues to represent a possible sustainable solution to all these problems. From the proposal of the garden city by Ebenezer Howard in 1898, to the project of The Orbit presented in 2019 by the Canadian architecture studio Partisans, more than a century has passed, during which time the concept of the garden city has been developed, analyzed and criticized ad nauseam, both in its morphological dimension and in the multiple theoretical aspects that make it up, encompassing historical, economic, ecological, ideological and sociological aspects, but that despite its patent failures to materialize the original idea, continues to exert a collective fascination that allows it to continue in force today. Using a comparative methodology, we can check with the naked eye the impact on the morphology of Howard’s diagrams, whose preference for the circular layout can be seen reflected both in later examples and in historical prototypes of concentric cities, both built and imaginary. But beyond the appearance of its streets, we can find references in conceptual aspects in the projects recently presented in ideas such as the union of the country and the city, reflected in Howard's work in the diagram of the third magnet, whose antecedent can be found in recognized authors such as Kropotkin, and which is reflected in the project presentation brochure of the Canadian study mentioned at the beginning, which says: “The Orbit is our vision for a complete, cutting-edge community where our small town and rural lifestyles are enhanced by the benefits and attributes of urban living ”. This time, the garden city of the past will be the sustainable city of the future.
Abaton. Revista de figuración, representación e imágenes de la arquitectura
La ciudad compacta requiere de edificios en altura, pero es la ciudad dispersa la que ha crecido ... more La ciudad compacta requiere de edificios en altura, pero es la ciudad dispersa la que ha crecido y triunfado durante las últimas décadas. La propuesta del arquitecto James Wines en la década de los años ochenta, su Highrise of Homes, recupera vigencia y une lo mejor de los dos mundos.
Adaptive Cities Through the Post Pandemic Lens, 2023
The pandemic forced us with the task of finding solutions to a wide range of issues, and the hist... more The pandemic forced us with the task of finding solutions to a wide range of issues, and the historic dichotomy of town and country, especially relevant since the beginning of the Anthropocene –if we use the Industrial Revolution as its starting point–, is being addressed once again in the proposals presented to solve the problems of the city of the future. Nature is calling and we are told the answer to a more humane city is a more ‘natural’ city.
AMPS PROCEEDINGS SERIES 25 - Urban Assemblage: The City as Architecture, Media, AI and Big Data, 2021
Why analyze the history of the garden city? Because despite its conceptual failure in its materia... more Why analyze the history of the garden city? Because despite its conceptual failure in its materializations, its ideological and morphological conceptual success is undeniable. In a world with problems of overpopulation, access to housing, mobility and ecological collapse, the garden city continues to represent a possible sustainable solution to all these problems. From the proposal of the garden city by Ebenezer Howard in 1898, to the project of The Orbit presented in 2019 by the Canadian architecture studio Partisans, more than a century has passed, during which time the concept of the garden city has been developed, analyzed and criticized ad nauseam, both in its morphological dimension and in the multiple theoretical aspects that make it up, encompassing historical, economic, ecological, ideological and sociological aspects, but that despite its patent failures to materialize the original idea, continues to exert a collective fascination that allows it to continue in force today. Using a comparative methodology, we can check with the naked eye the impact on the morphology of Howard’s diagrams, whose preference for the circular layout can be seen reflected both in later examples and in historical prototypes of concentric cities, both built and imaginary. But beyond the appearance of its streets, we can find references in conceptual aspects in the projects recently presented in ideas such as the union of the country and the city, reflected in Howard's work in the diagram of the third magnet, whose antecedent can be found in recognized authors such as Kropotkin, and which is reflected in the project presentation brochure of the Canadian study mentioned at the beginning, which says: “The Orbit is our vision for a complete, cutting-edge community where our small town and rural lifestyles are enhanced by the benefits and attributes of urban living ”. This time, the garden city of the past will be the sustainable city of the future.
Abaton. Revista de figuración, representación e imágenes de la arquitectura
La ciudad compacta requiere de edificios en altura, pero es la ciudad dispersa la que ha crecido ... more La ciudad compacta requiere de edificios en altura, pero es la ciudad dispersa la que ha crecido y triunfado durante las últimas décadas. La propuesta del arquitecto James Wines en la década de los años ochenta, su Highrise of Homes, recupera vigencia y une lo mejor de los dos mundos.
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From the proposal of the garden city by Ebenezer Howard in 1898, to the project of The Orbit presented in 2019 by the Canadian architecture studio Partisans, more than a century has passed, during which time the concept of the garden city has been developed, analyzed and criticized ad nauseam, both in its morphological dimension and in the multiple theoretical aspects that make it up, encompassing historical, economic,
ecological, ideological and sociological aspects, but that despite its patent
failures to materialize the original idea, continues to exert a collective fascination that allows it to continue in force today.
Using a comparative methodology, we can check with the naked eye the impact on the morphology of Howard’s diagrams, whose preference for the circular layout can be seen reflected both in later examples and in historical prototypes of concentric cities, both built and imaginary. But beyond the appearance of its streets, we can find references in conceptual aspects in the projects recently presented in ideas such as the union of the country and the city, reflected in Howard's work in the diagram of the third magnet, whose antecedent can be found in recognized authors such as Kropotkin, and which is reflected in the project presentation brochure of the Canadian study mentioned at the beginning, which says: “The Orbit is our vision for a complete, cutting-edge community where our small town and rural lifestyles are enhanced by the benefits and attributes of urban living ”.
This time, the garden city of the past will be the sustainable city of the future.
From the proposal of the garden city by Ebenezer Howard in 1898, to the project of The Orbit presented in 2019 by the Canadian architecture studio Partisans, more than a century has passed, during which time the concept of the garden city has been developed, analyzed and criticized ad nauseam, both in its morphological dimension and in the multiple theoretical aspects that make it up, encompassing historical, economic,
ecological, ideological and sociological aspects, but that despite its patent
failures to materialize the original idea, continues to exert a collective fascination that allows it to continue in force today.
Using a comparative methodology, we can check with the naked eye the impact on the morphology of Howard’s diagrams, whose preference for the circular layout can be seen reflected both in later examples and in historical prototypes of concentric cities, both built and imaginary. But beyond the appearance of its streets, we can find references in conceptual aspects in the projects recently presented in ideas such as the union of the country and the city, reflected in Howard's work in the diagram of the third magnet, whose antecedent can be found in recognized authors such as Kropotkin, and which is reflected in the project presentation brochure of the Canadian study mentioned at the beginning, which says: “The Orbit is our vision for a complete, cutting-edge community where our small town and rural lifestyles are enhanced by the benefits and attributes of urban living ”.
This time, the garden city of the past will be the sustainable city of the future.