Where is that rock for
the future?
Anyway, the question of how and above all, where we will live in
the future Inevitably leads us here to the 16 encapsulates the modern world and
all our conceptions of modern life. Some of our greatest success stories begin
when your opportunity is a waste. It’s a place of longing made of steel,
concrete glass, I think the attraction of cities is many folds. The history of
cities is about managing the surplus from the countryside.
So, when agriculture surplus existed, markets were set up and
then when that became more regular phenomenon and it became a stage two street
before it began to settle. It was always a place that had opportunity because
it meant the wealth got concentrated there. It meant that one service led to
another. More job opportunities existed, but clearly, cities are condensers,
Cities are where you can gain anonymous. Cities are where you don't carry the
bag back into any social dislocations that you might've, experienced.
Cities allow you to feel
like you could start again from scratch on an equal footing:
The lights of the city, they draw us in from far and wide. Even
today, more than half of us live in urban areas. By 2050 it will be almost 70 %
every year. The global population grows by 80 million people, be issue of
overpopulation is first and foremost an urban problem. When many people dream
of the same place, the space for dreaming becomes scarce.
Yeah, Ben condenser has an upper limit of how much it can
actually produce productively, both in terms of societal cultures, but also in
terms of economy and all of that We were taught by our teachers that there's
nothing like a Sippy big, that this wasn't a problem. Cities got bigger, they
would have more facilities, there were two more things, et cetera, but now
suddenly, three decades later I come to teach here. And what I'm telling my
students is. Cities is having upper limit Boston Massachusetts, one of the
oldest cities in the United States. It is considered an attractive place to
live on these things too.
Its proximity to some of
the countries, the most prestigious universities.
One of these is Harvard at the Harvard graduate school of
design, the Indian architect and urban planning expert Raul Mehrotra teaches
about the future of cities born in Mumbai, the challenges of metropolitan life
of being at the front of his mind. Since his early childhood Cities are no
longer mono. It’s not just a port down the 10 things that happened
simultaneously in a globalized world. There are a hundred things that happen
simultaneously in the city.
So, the city becomes a credibly complicated in terms of the
aspirations that it's trying to respond to and therefore design becomes even
more critical because those contestations mean you have to resolve them. And
space can be a very important aspect in terms of uh. Yes, urban densification
in the modern era has traditionally looked like this Countless high rise
Residential buildings packed into a very small geographical space. It’s the
classic image of urbanization in Asia's mega cities, but in the United States
many cities are growing outwards covering ever more land. The fact that urban
space is growing primarily in these two ways results from two technologies.
What do you think about
cars?
The first is the elevator It has enabled us to live with
previously undreamed-of Heights. The other is the car. It is precisely these technologies that many architects today see as a major problem The and the
elevator reforms of technology that are more than a hundred years old. They are
both. One could say: human isolation systems, The angels, I'm just looking at
Los Angeles This is the iconic car city, It's extremely flat, extremely
spacious.
Here We isolate people as much as possible. We separate them from
each other in an extreme way. Then we require them to consume a lot of fuel and
in doing so produce a lot of CO2 and other pollutants. They would Fall. The
other extreme is the idea of the vertical elevator city.
If we now look at Hong Kong, for example, where the average
living space is around 15 square meters, for me, this is the moment from the
matrix when Neo wakes up and somehow pulls the plug. We think it's science
fiction, but now it seems closer to documentary We’re almost there and it's driven
by a technology like the elevator which allows us to stack space vertically and
that people imagine it like chicken sex that can lead to social deprivation. I
think Pesci father. These are fixed ways of thinking in terms of what a city
should look like, which I believe we should free ourselves from I think that
planners’ investors, politicians at all levels, should engage in rethinking the
city. I think five o’clock an architect from Berlin, has numerous missions
support the city of the future could look like his designs have names like
bagel town.
Instead of showing
individual buildings,
They show entire neighborhoods, parts of a city that appear
lifted straight from the side of a science fiction movie. That’s how futuristic
has designed seem to be They ask what the city of the future might look like if
we just spent sort of conventional forms of mobility like the car and the
traditional elevator Well, some of these are provocative images that may look
utopian at first glance. I think God there's nothing utopian about them. The
Bible town, it was simply in the idea of how the linear movement of a tram or a
train could be turned into a spiral on it. The same goes for the village.
The idea was to see what happens when we have a diagonal
elevator and that's exactly movement. We wanted to show how the movement
through the space is always the inspiration for the space itself, just as it is
flashing a car city and vertical in an elevator city of that That’s exactly the
same on the other mobility technologies, surface, the input and inspiration for
the design Should be timeless. Current concept was also based on this
principle. He calls it the oven shelf, a neighborhood complex in which there
are no cars taking up valuable space, but where people move from place to place
with the help of so-called micro mobility solutions, which are extremely
flexible. Instead of thinking in terms of finished architecture, we're focusing
on the infrastructure that makes living together in a neighborhood possible in
the first place this dance with the basic structure and includes the floor, the
ceiling, the load, bearing structures and the necessary infrastructure for
water and electricity.
Infrastructure and
Possibilities:
Everything is built like a giant shelving system as a stacked
one on top of the other, with the shelves filled in between them. There are no
individual buildings, but rather a single superhuman structure within the idea.
Rest of the shelves will be connected with ramps for e-bikes, which can then
easily right up the hill, providing access to poplars and public spaces that
are found on the different stack layers. The whole big vision kind of in
between There is room for living and working. That’s the basic idea.
It can be a very flexible way of building It’s not cast in
concrete, so it can change over time. Material function size. What happens
between the shelves is completely flexible. There’s a basic structure is built
to last forever. There are no high-rise residential towers here or multi-lane
highways as glib as it may sound.
Should we turn that has created is designed with people in mind,
Let's go by medic and shelf, seeks to provide solutions to the densely
populated city of the future, but aims to do so on a human scale. Then it
creates you in places that we otherwise lack in cities today, not just on one
level but on different levels. People can actually meet and interact on several
different levels with the government that we believe, is how we can ensure the
social sustainability of a city of the future. Through social exchange, we go
to the city to meet and interact with others The whole form of the home. It’s a
one of the city's amyloids It is the naughtiest open space and the German
capital this morning, max frittata has converted this space into an
experimental laboratory.
It is the first step in
turning his design into reality via an app.
A virtual map is creative that makes the urban shelf and livable experience. All that's required. Is it enough space at the right
vehicle Max his colleagues provide support during his test drive Yeah, you can
get the five You can see the path that you can follow? You can also see some neighborhoods or buildings that you can't drive through but the key thing is
the path which is shown here in blue.
If we now project the virtual designs from the computer onto the
surface, then we can literally experience them for ourselves by cycling through
these neighborhoods and getting a sense of what it feels like. Then we can see
if the Cubs are a bit too Tice or if it's a bit too long and stress, and
therefore a bit boring that way we can adjust and change the designs again.
Now, after experiencing it out here in three dimensions, every day, issues with
policies how the need for alternative forms of urban mobility is becoming
increasingly urgent. Parts of the heavily congested types of restaurants are in
Berlin, have recently seen a speed limit imposed due to rising levels of amp
pollution. Of course, we don't have the same traffic problems that we see in
Mexico, City or in India or another developing regions and the mega cities they
have there.
But even Hannah, you notice the fine dust pollution, so we have
to ask ourselves: how can we get the cost out of the city? How can cities
continue to grow? We also need more affordable living space. There’s enough for
us to focus on here in Europe. Should we Thomas architecture studio, often
works together with companies from the mobility sector itself?
These include common factors and innovator builders such as Audi
and Schindler. The industry has long recognized that it can only remain
sustainable by providing new solutions. Fishman Tyler and his colleagues the
future of our cities depends on our willingness to rethink established
structures. The urban shelf frees itself from the idea of architecture as a
design spectacle. I did stand, offers a system-based solution.
One that is individually
adaptable to any location to any social structure,
It's a shelf contained space, both luxury apartments and affordable
homes. We studied the idea, together with students in Brazil and found that it
would make sense to have the basic structure finance with public money, to
build the essential infrastructure and then have the people living there. Build
the living spaces within their neighborhood with their own hands, ended Up
following with Ivan and a bit like they do in the favelas already but within
the structure of the urban shelf, that's also what we were aiming for: a
certain versatility and visual diversity and the appearance of these living
spaces. In Tubingen in Southern Germany, this dream may soon become a reality.
The first urban shelf has just been created here, while I'm not yet a
fully-fledged urban neighborhood offering micro mobility, transportation
options.
It will nonetheless provide space for people to meet and
socialize Students and refugees are intended to live here. We didn't want to
create the kind of architecture that separates people from one another or force
people to be part of a neighborhood I don't know I don't. I believe that we
should at least provide the opportunity to those who want it, because if we
really want to create sustainable cities and happy urban residents, that I
believe that neighborhoods are a measure of how we can support social
interaction and contribute to Warren says I Can do it off No matter how rapidly
they grow, our citizens continue to be places of social interaction. The
strength of our communities is an important indication of how well we are able
to live together. The form of the city, the space that you make and be
occupied, is critical to fostering the notion of the city as a condenser, the
place where there are social interactions that give rise to innovation, and
then they give rise to creativity.
The Construct and Manufacture
culture:
You know the arts come out of, it Pros come out of it, which is
what you and me, and all of us thrive on Again, here, Architecture can play a
big role or it's creating conditions where there's more polarity build the hall
to this, keep people out, there's a polarity And that polarization processes
accident related Seen from a distance, The city skyline, is full of promise,
but the closer we look, the mortar feels acquaint different To reality, The centers of all cities have long ceased to be places of community in many parts
of what are called global cities of Shanghai, Dubai, New York and Manhattan,
and Hudson yards You have tall buildings huddled together with very few lights
on in those apartments, because these are, this is just speculated. People have
invested from around the world tons of apartments They just like empty five
lights on a 30 story, high apartment, so it's got no relationship with people
coming there. Its relationship is to the capital that is arrived there. What
this does is two things: One is that it creates a hyper, important spot
architecture, the materiality of these buildings materials that can be deployed
very quickly.
Dry construction,
It's a metal cladding, it's glass which can cooperate quickly
because the more quickly the building can go up the whole quickly category can
realize its value. And then the other thing it does is it creates iniquity
because then marginalizes a lot of people, because this capital that occupies
usually prime space in the city, which has got the best services which has got
where the jobs are Then you have a complete disjuncture between working andliving, and you have massive inequities that play themselves out just
spatially, because the poor just get flicked to the edges of the city. For
example, glance at some of the world's largest cities show was when taken to
their extreme. Such developments can lead to from the favelas in Rio to the
slums in Mumbai and new Delhi. More than 1 billion people live in so-called informal
settlements.
Today, this Vega could travel by 2050 I was sitting as grappled
with this is going to be a challenge because cities are about people living
together and working cooperatively. And if you can't live together in a city,
you can't have a city the system breaks down. You don't have to travel to the
developing world to see what this looks like. This problem has long been part
of Western societies as well. A Stone's throw away from Harvard university is
the Massachusetts Institute of technology.
MIT,
More than 11,000 people will study at this elite university, but
they can't live here. While there are plenty of laboratories and offices
available. There is nowhere for people to call home The decision about land use
is captured by international companies or real estate developers that want to
maximize their returns. So, as a result, in this neighborhood we have no
grocery store. There’s no pharmacy, there's no day-care center, except for MIT
people.
There’s no healthcare facility: You would have to walk a long
way to be to buy broccoli for a toothbrush. And very few people live here I
mean what little housing is here is only for rich people. So, at night it's
completely dead here, because it's not it's not really a functioning community
It’s not that urban planners don't care about these issues, but they don't
really have the tools to have an impact on them. No researchers at the MIT
media lab building these tools. The study group and city science are looking
for ways to make towns and communities more livable for their inhabitants.
Through the use of new technology, the group is led by Ken
Lawson previously and an architect. He has now focused entirely on research.
One of the applications of technology that we are hard that we are most excited
about is to reinvent the process using technology and the decisions about land
use, Neighborhoods and entire cities can be simulated on one platform. What
happens when you home and offices about how does the flow of traffic change?
How many inhabitants are
too many which parts of the city are busy?
What time Where, where MIT is a one where kilometer district MIT
now has control of 14 acres this this area right here and they are going to be
developing this in the future. It’s the last opportunity to turn Kendall square
into a real functioning community, so you can see most of the buildings here
are represented by these codes. So, oh his office and R is residential. So
then, when we run our simulations, we're taking into account the mix of people
of different demographic profiles that might live or work in each of these
locations, and we can change those on the fly. The module has been fed with
data sets that allow countless scenarios to be simulated and urban planning to
be carried out in an interactive way.
The idea is to be able to predict the consequences of planning
decisions, the individual components of the model I like building blocks that
can be exchanged which has an effect on the entire neighborhood Lego bricks.
They use to simulate the construction with this kind of tool. You can have lay
people, on the one hand, who live and work in the community, be involved in an
interactive way in the process, and you can have the mayor and the and the and
the civic leaders being involved in the process. So, we think of it as a
democratization of design, putting very powerful tools that are currently only
available to experts in the hands of non-experts to engage them in the process.
This dialogue between urban planners’ investors, politicians and citizens isn't
attempt to meet the needs of those who actually live in the city.
The first projects are
already underway,
We’re working in Hamburg and he used the tool just like this. To
help them address. Housing for the refugees were working in Helsinki to help
them redesign the campus at Alto university. This model over here is a street
in Shanghai near Tongji university. Eventually, what we'd like to do is to turn
this into an open-source platform that anybody could use.
I'D like to see it in hundreds or thousands of cities all over
the world, it’s really critical that urban design urban planning become more
agile, more adaptable in the future. The notion that you can create a master
plan that gets passed by and city and that's a valid for 10 or 20 years when technology and economic system was then social patterns, are changing so
rapidly. I mean it's just it's just an invalid concept. The old ways don't will
never be fast enough on its mission to improve city life. The city science
group is interested in more than just urban planning.
Another innovation of that robotic interiors was also developed
at MIT The scientists are working to answer a specific challenge: How flexible
can a single room be When you go back to Roman times, we still design the same
way. The idea is that a spaces basically per a single function. You have a
bedroom with a bed where you sleep in a dining room, with a dining table where
you eat in a living room with a couch where you entertain, and you end up with
all these rooms. And as you begin to shrink, the apartment cause there's no
choice in the city, because land is so expensive that you get to the point
where you can't have single function: spaces It’s just impossible. For years
the students have been working to develop a solution even breathing new life
into office, furniture Their initial prototypes already shows that our single
room contains a whole lot of space by means of a light barrier and sensor.
The living room turns
into a bedroom,
The kitchen transforms into a bathroom. A dining table suddenly
appears where desks going have been standing. And now the research project has
turned into a commercial start-up, it’s called Maury living from origami and it
was already raised over $ 20 million in investment capital. The transformation
and the and the design of spaces with the appropriate technology allows you to
configure the space in an effortless way, for whatever function is at hand. And
that's a very hard challenge, but you know we're beginning to make that work And
I clear I think that is the future I'M totally convinced that in 10 -15 years
every department will have this in the city.
Urban space is too valuable to be static. Innovations help us to
overcome the challenges we will face in the future. Yes, when it comes to
building, we are still not innovative enough to ensure we will even have a
future. The urbanization of our planet has led to an insatiable appetite for
new buildings. Worldwide 4 million tons of Symantec produced every year.
The construction industry is therefore responsible for a
significant proportion of greenhouse gas emissions and that use of precious raw
materials. We’re running out of resources, you know, as Buckminster fuller
said, we're on spaceship earth. You wrote a book called a manual for spaceship.
And what he meant by that is: it's got finite resources, as Gandhi said. You
know this planet is enough for our needs, but not for our greed.
Construction Industry,
There is such a demand for building materials around the world.
For example, in China, more cement has been used in the past three years than
in the USA in the last 100 years. If we are using our resources at a much
faster rate, then they can be replenished same goes for sand. We are consuming
more sand than is produced through a natural erosion of Poland, Sam This needed
to make cement, which is why it is so precious for the construction industry
that it could ever run out.
It’s hard to imagine, after all about one thing for the planet's
land surface consists of Sandy doesn't, but this type of sand is unsuitable for
construction to make cement. You need the kind of sand where the grains into
log-in and thereby stick together, come on. This does not take place with
desert sand, and so it cannot be used and that's why the city of Doha, for
example, despite being located in the desert it has to be built with imported
sand. Qatar imported $ 6 billion worth of sand into the desert. Last year, the
effects of this multi-billion sand trade, the disastrous the need for building
materials, is so great.
The sand is being
sourced illegally beaches,
A disappearing, Riverbed So being drenched so much that that
flow rate is changing also that he knew her and evermore ambitious building
projects could be realized in the world's major cities. I felt wounding, we
have to change our thinking and then we have to remember that this is the only
planet we have How do we want to ensure its continued existence and that's why
we have to consider how we can best use our available resources? And in a small
town in the German stays of orange NGO, that is exactly what is happening. A
new building material called polymer Concrete has been created, these breaks
could revolutionize the construction industry as they are largely of the raw
material that is so far been unsuited to building desert sand. The inventors of
this miracle substance together, they found it - The company polychaeta - Seems
to make quite a difference in given that the sand always contains dust
particles which are of no use to us.
If I pour like this, you can see the dust rising. We can't use
this dust The past few years of research. I’ve made the two men something
they're sand: experts, they know exactly which weights and size of grain are
required for that specific barber, since that time in the laboratory is spent
effecting the formula of that building material machining the sand is sucked
into the machine and the polyester resin, which is a liquid, comes out of a
tap. The two are mixed together and this mixture comes out at the front towards
an outlet. Five grinders always come the scores, always come machine emits
momentum.
Add a hardening agent
It’s a bit like baking, a cake You add the baking powder to the
cake mixture and the cake rises. The polyester resin that is added to the sand
is a plastic It has similar properties to tree resin, polyester, resin
moistens, the sand and blues it together. What’s special about our polyester
resin is that it consists of 38 % recycled pet bottles. So basically, we're
gluing desert sand together with recycled plastic bottles to form a building
material that will essentially last forever the great advantage of polymer
concrete is that at once it has been applied and become solid.
It’s completely non-absorbent and releases nothing into the
environment. It takes about 20 minutes for a brick made of polymer concrete to
set. This is unfeasibly fast compared to conventional concrete, and it has
another clear advantage. The production process requires no water at all and
generate significantly less CO2. The result Lego break for adults that can be
created quickly and above all, easily the idea of producing a construction
material came to us after a natural disaster, the terrible earthquake in Haiti
in 2010.
My colleague gone to her partner and I got together and thought
about what we could do to empower people to rebuild the island themselves. They
evolved to bone and that's what inspired us to produce a polymeric hungry to
using small machines on site and make Lego bricks from it, so that this would
become possible. But first the company is working in a completely different
part of the world. No maybe a place more in need of a revolutionary building
materials such as polymer Concrete is hard to imagine. Not only are there vast
amounts of desert sand, but the country also suffers from extreme drought.
Get outdoors is continuously
visiting,
Namibia to realize construction projects. The humanitarian
intention behind the material has not been lost That might come up when you're
here It’s hard to imagine that in other parts of Africa, things in quite
different that there are problems with overpopulation and a severe lack of
housing. Here, everything is still spacious and free. The whole continent used
to be like that, And the problems that you see today and Lagos or in Cairo willappear in Namibia. At some point there are already people here who live in 10
hearts simply because there's nothing else, Get a small village in the middle
of the Mount Ahom nature reserve.
The latest construction site is located. Yeah, a church has to
be built entirely from polymer concrete, except for the science manager. The
workers are unskilled because the construction itself does not require any
specialist training. You guys’ shine. These breaks have the same opening at the
bottom as they do at the top.
And that's why you can simply put one on top of the other and it
fits all of us played with Lego when we were children. I think that's why the
principle is easy to understand that children can do it. Why don't grownups to
the exact number of breaks that will be needed for a building is calculated in
advance? This helps her to use the amount of construction waste a little bit
too high, and not only that, but plug-in system requires either mortar, not any
other binding agents to make sure the walls are completely stable. The bricks
are also screwed together Using these long-threaded screws just five hours, The
entire façade is almost finished.
The main Project Soul:
The current judge is mainly a shipping container with doors and
windows, so you really small And, and when did the school is really bored?
There are many peoples I want to stay off site, we’ve all been there and some
people say. I see that justice is very important because you sound bite to get
sick.
You pray for A few hundred kilometer's further south near the
Capitol Ventura. A new supply of building materials is being produced for the
past few months. The first polymer concrete breaks may directly and then maybe
have been created here and maybe the first production facility outside Germany.
We have a new team made up of 15 women and 15 men from the neighboring shantytown. We’ve been in production here since February to producing enough
materials for one new house.
Every day, sand from Namibia is turned into bricks that look
different from the ones we produce in Germany simply because the sand is a bit
different. We get to see the houses that are built here Now the people live in
the house and how it changes their lives. And then we also see how the lives of
our work has changed. That’s what's so great about this. The shantytown Something
else God So FinTech most of the thought of the Namibian people is said to live.
Makeshift settlement and
housemate
That’s already being built here Previously a model house
presented to the Namibian government. The company has since donated it to the
Phillip family. Before that, then living conditions were quite different. It
was small, we didn't have a kitchen like this, so we mostly used to dull out
cooking outside the house. When did India gum is going inside, you throw the TV
wet If it's not good to house?
Everyone just is staying private profiles as they come. You
could have seen on the road that most of the answers, yet I just need this. I
don't know SIS So they all want to have profiles in decent place to put their
head and yeah, a place where they can call it home with the help of governmentand the private funding. Polycount wants to offer many more people the chance
to live in homes like this. Their initiative is finally off the ground. And its
now high time to scale up that building plans, It's the auto industry.
At the moment, the construction industry is focused on the
market for expensive or high-end building methods. And this makes no sense in
every country in the world we have problems, building enough social housing so
time to death. And if we don't deal with this challenge, our problems will only
increase cortisol. The challenges we will face tomorrow require new solutions
and new ways of thinking, especially in the fields of planning and
architecture. Paris.
During its storied
history,
The city has produced many important architects and buildings.
They have made the French capital One of Europe's most beautiful cities today,
a new generation of architects as a magic confluence Institute. They in
learning why architecture has to open itself up in order to change the world,
hopefully, luckily in architecture, it's important to think about philosophy,
politics, business, So she ology geology geography. All of these disciplines
play a role in what the architect has to do, and all these fields must come
together to inspire the architects’ designs. Architecture is a culture that
absorbs and transforms things to allow something new to emerge from them.
Anyone who has studied architecture and design something but the
challenge lies in bringing all these disciplines together. Then that's what
we're focusing on here, after all, people who have studied architecture should
be in a position to change the world.
Then they don’t, the deck, is taught at various architecture,
schools and universities, which you often found the way architecture was
draught too rigid, too conservative, too theoretical So she decided to found
her own school of architecture and pursue the questions that interested her.
What is the role of the architect and of architecture today?
How can they solve the
challenges of the future?
They take data, sets and use them to analyze the location, the
environmental, the city and then determine what people in effect, what the
customer needs without ever bothering to meet the people they are designing for
and getting to know them. Definitely the human dimension has completely
disappeared in architecture. That’s actually what I regret the most and that's
why I think we need to bring the humanistic idea back into the training of
architects. When constructing a building you have to deal with the person you
were working in designing, for You have to understand their wishes, because
their wishes are the basis of our work. Unfortunately, this is rarely talked
about in architecture schools.
Today I don't want. These wishes can be incorporated into architecture
as directly as possible. It’s the assumptions of she was a female, has master's
thesis concept and now is the shape of a building to be determined by the
brainwaves of its inhabitants. It shows FM's thought experiment the
architecture even changes as the brainwaves change, thus reacting to the
inhabitants, emotions and needs and it isn't, I know the idea was to ask what
would happen if the human body and architecture had some kind of common
technological DNA. We are rethinking how we will build and live in buildings in
the future.
3d printer the geometric
shapes
Using a 3d printer the geometric shapes created by the
brainwaves are translated into real models. The processes or the principle
works. Nowadays we can get the brainwaves and transcribe them into geometry. Of
course, we're not able to interpret brainwaves and to say what someone is
thinking or feeling at any given moment, but we can collect clues about a
person's sensations feelings or impressions. Very good, the idea of this project
was to question our future role as architects.
It’s about bringing together a range of disciplines and
realizing projects that touch not only on the one aspect, but on several
aspects of the field from neuroscience to urban planning. The student's designs
could sometimes be mistaken for modern art. The young architects experiment
dream finds unusual perspectives. Often it seems less about the feasibility of
a designer than about the idea behind it. What Would it be like to live on the
moon?
Our profession only requires us to follow rules and design
buildings that comply with regulations of the day. Then the job of an architect
will eventually disappear, architect Or, as I prefer to say, people who studied
architecture, because not everyone necessarily ends up becoming an architect. I
have a vision of the world a viewpoint and are able not only to do their job,
but also to imagine the future. Then architecture will continue to play a role
in the world. Well, we must stop thinking about tomorrow today and act now for
the sake of our future.
To imagine the future
Scope
When I teach, I always tell my students how much I envy them
because they belong to a generation that is about to reinvent architecture for
the next 100 years. Isn’t that fantastic Deciding how space will be used in the
future has never been more important? It’s a daunting task because so much is
at stake. Now, and wow we will live together in the future, Will not only be
decided by architects and planners and engineers, but they can play their part
in ensuring that this, where and how will continue to exist at all. I think
those problems come to us with every project, but we choose not to see them.
We choose to make architecture, the autonomous object. We seem
to take the brief only from the client. While we also have the responsibility
for society. They are responsible to our patron because they are supporting us,
but we are responsible to society because they're going to make an implication
for them. So, we have to expand our ambition as architects to expand the
agenda, be clever about it and be respectful and honest about it.
And I think pedagogy has to do this with architects this and we
have to demonstrate this and we were talking much more about it. That's a very
good way to be in