Readings:
Kenneth Frampton, "Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance" The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (ed.) Hal Foster (Seattle, Washington: Bay Press, 1983) 16-30
Wendell Berry, "The Whole Horse" The Art of the Commonplace (
Rem Koolhaas, "Bigness: or the Problem of Large" Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture, Charles Jencks and Karl Kropf, editors (West Sussex: Academy Editions, 1997) 307-311
Rem Koolhaas, "Junkspace" (exerpted and reformatted from the website "Bridge The Gap"), transcript from a conference talk in which Koolhaas participated in July 2001,
Question:
With experts on both sides of the fence of sustainablity one must question the validity of the argument. There is support for and against global warming, which is the reason that we are become more and more aware of the effect that we are having on our environment. Also, as more and more people are being born, the population increases, and with that increase comes the demand for more stuff. And obtaining stuff requires the use of materials, which, in todays industural socity means packaging, which takes up more space that the suff we aquire.
Is there a way for citizens to contiue to have all the stuff that we desire and the stuff that makes us confortabe in our environment, and still preserve or leave behind enough for our childs child to have the same quality of life that we have now?
