I couldn’t have a string of Utopian posts without including some Archigram; The Instant City (1968) is a mobile “event,” travels between various dreary and monotonous towns, deploying and saturating them with an over-stimulation of media, technology, popculture, and cultural space. Via.
Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz - “Raumstadt” proposal, 1959.
“I was looking for a serial, open, flexible and multifunctional universal structure that allowed different figurations, fillings and spaces, versatile, mountable and demountable. I was looking for the laws of space”
Takis Zenetos - A proposal for suspended turbines situated in a gorge to generate electricity, years before wind-power came into prominence, early 1960s.
James Wines / SITE - High-rise of homes, a proposal for vertically oriented suburbs in urban areas, 1981.
