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This lecture was presented at the ArtEZ Academy for Architecture in Arnhem, in the framework of 'Lightness > Utopia' a lecture series and workshop curated by Martine de Wit/DUS Architects.
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lightness (utop ia )
Plein 13 / Academie van Bouwkunst Arnhem / Lichtheid en Utopia / January 12, 2013
“He that knows one knows them all, they are so alike one another.” !
Sir Thomas Moore (a precognition of the hive mind)
“He that knows one knows them all, they are so alike one another.” !
Sir Thomas Moore (a precognition of the franchise mind)
City of Truth Bartolomeo Del Bene http://www.spamula.net/blog/2006/06/civitas_veri_1.html
Palmanova, Udine, Italia (1593) 45°54′N 13°19′E
lightness (sprezzatura)
The New Atlantis Francis Bacon, 1626 http://www.constitution.org/bacon/new_atlantis.htm
The New Atlantis Francis Bacon, 1626 http://www.constitution.org/bacon/new_atlantis.htm
Optics and Astronomy
The New Atlantis Francis Bacon, 1626 http://www.constitution.org/bacon/new_atlantis.htm
Genetic Modification
The New Atlantis Francis Bacon, 1626 http://www.constitution.org/bacon/new_atlantis.htm
Communication
Campo Marzio Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1762) http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3171144?uid=3738736&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21101517121243
Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma (1762) Eisenman Architects, Yale University, Dogma
http://news.yale.edu/2012/07/16/yale-school-architecture-professor-and-students-reinvent-rome-venice-biennale
Utopian-Dystopian Circular section London, 1872 !
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Paul Gustave Doré (a precognition of 20th century ideologies)
500.000 BC - 1850 !
(against forces)
1850-1950 !
(transitional)
1950 >>> !
(natural)
Richard Buckminster Fuller Man on Earth: Transport Species
26% of earth’s surface is dry land.
85% of all earth’s dry land is here shown.
86% of all dry land shown is above equator.
The whole of the human family could stand on Bermuda.
All crowded into England they would have 14sq. mtr. each.
!“United we stand, divided we fall”
is correct mentally and spiritually but
falacious physically or materially.
!2,000,000,000 new homes will be required in the next 80 years. !Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1928 !!
“We are concerned with mooring first class habitation to the earth’s surface.” !
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Richard Buckminster Fuller (1932) (a precognition of 21th century heterotopias)
utopia (b iomass)
bi·o·mass /’bīō¸mas/ !Noun 1. The total quantity or weight of organisms in a given area or volume. 2. Organic matter used as a fuel.
bi·o·mass /’bīō¸mas/ !Noun 1. The total quantity or weight of organisms in a given area or volume. 2. Organic matter used as a fuel. 3. Organic matter perceived as a form of transitory intelligence
Oliviero Toscani (concept) Benetton Campaign Spring-Summer 1992
Neal Stephenson Snow Crash, 1992 ISBN-13: 978-0553380958
two films, produced by the student team
fin
Ronald van Tienhoven 2013Overview projects - http://www.slideshare.net/rvtienhoven/ronald-van-tienhoven-projects19932013
