The Berlin and the Cretan issues of KAM workshops 2012 examine the conditions of police and prison as major references of architecture today.
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Paradisiacal enclosure | Atanasius Kircher, Topographia Paradisi Terrestris | via http://thecityasaproject.org/
Carceri by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, via Panagiotis Pangalos.
The city considered as an accumulation of autonomous units. archiveofaffinities: Le Corbusier, A Group of Unités d’Habitation Set in a Park, Nemours, France, 1934
The Game Storyboard structures the attention of the player; filling the empty spaces of a storyboard template already forms the shadow of a game. Every move of the player is predetermined, every decision he makes is included in a predetermined horizon. Download Game Storyboard Template (via finegamedesign.com).
Mechanisms and systems in Massively Multiplayer (MMP) games (via finegamedesign.com).
Cities do not form common grounds. Via socks-studio: Alexander Rodtchenko photomontage
The game and the event
A first question that represents the political background of gaming is linked to the discussion you have. The architectures of gaming are characterized by the limits of the game, the structures of its interior space and the concepts of its exterior. We may enter the political structure of the question through a reference to Alain Badiou’s distinction between fact and event, e.g., in Peut-on penser la politique?, a relatively late text (1985) by the writer of Being and Event.
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The density of a city suggests its understanding as a homogeneous controlled field. What this density signifies today? Can we claim that the dense city would already represent a ruin? archimaps: Aerial view of Lima, Peru
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Tunnels would be the only existing intermediary spaces for a society founded on gaming.
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scanzen: Lunar space station. Věda a technika mládeži, 1/1954. Artist: František Škoda. source: Planeta Eden
via heterochronia: What he also found was a life-sized Disney town elaborately designed in the style of Baron Haussmann, the French urban planner who, under Napoleon III, transformed Paris into the fussy gilded museum it is today. With the faux chateaux and the painted shutters and the clipped lawns, Val d’Europe was, Sillem saw, a fictionalized, idealized version of France … in France. But that wasn’t even the weirdest part. The weirdest part was that many stretches of the village were eerily empty—like a pre-dawn movie set. Or as Sillem describes it: a “Truman Show like über-replica of a French village from the last century, which seems to have sprung up overnight.”
Tokyo Zoo (via midori lleva vestido corto)
Prison Architect
A population of independent cabins forms an allegory of the society of tomorrow. unfigurethepuzzle: Source: http://www.mondolithic.com/?p=1735
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