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Fictional Landscapes

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Frank Lloyd Wright: Ellis Island

This was Frank Lloyd Wright’s last dream: the “city of the future” on Ellis Island, designed in 1959, where a former immigration center was dismantled in the second half of the 1950s.

-updated August, 2021-

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Fictional Landscapes

Frank Lloyd Wright

Plan for a Greater Baghdad, 1957-1959, Baghdad, Iraq 

from the exhibition City of mirages: Bagdad 1952-1982, helded in New York’s Center for Architecture in 2008 organized by Collegi d´Arquitectes de Catalunya in Barcelona and curated by academic from UPC-Barcelona, Pedro Azara Nicolás. 

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Arata Isozaki: Re-Ruined Hiroshima

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Imagine how should we as architects rebuild cities starting from ruins.Here are some examples from Arata Isozaki’s megastructures which reminds this situation, but first we mustrealize what Isozaki wrote forty years ago, curiously it is what happens in some regions of the world right now:

“Incubated cities are destined to self-destruct , ruins are the style of our future cities, future cities are themselves ruins, our contemporary cities, for this reason, are destined to live only a fleeting moment,  give up their energy and return to inert material. All of our proposals and efforts will be buried and once again the incubation mechanism is reconstituted, that will be the future.”  Arata Isozaki.

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“Ruins are dead architecture”. Arata Izozaki.

Fictional Landscapes

Definitely, Chernikhov’s graphic representation anticipated a Century, it was also influential on architects and designers from Zaha Hadid to Yourself.

‘ – Architectural Fictions.’ Eleanor Gawne, AA blog 

 .. Iakov Chernikov (1889-1951) published over fifty works in his lifetime, including six works between 1927-33. Collectively, they can be seen to propose a ‘detailed course of liberating, stimulating education in the fundamental disciplines of three-dimensional design as they are encountered in the complex functional and expressive tasks addressed by architecture’. ..

One of Chernikov’s works in the AA Library, Architectural fictions: 101 coloured prints, 101 architectural miniatures (Moscow/Leningrad, 1933), was lent to the Imagine Moscow exhibition, held at the Design Museum earlier in 2017…

Consisting of 101 pages of drawings, the book also included explanations of their technique and basic principles behind them. Although published in Russian, the title pages are printed in Russian, German, French and English (in English, the word ‘fiction’ is used instead of ‘fantasies’.) The subject of the drawings is the new age of the city and industrialisation, of what Saski calls the ‘possibilities of the near future, images which had arisen in the author’s mind’. The drawings have been described as finding appropriate expression for the institutions and architecture of post-revolutionary nation. Each image has an elaborate, not very informative description; axonometric projection is the preferred drawing style. His drawings have been considered not just fantasies but insights into the possibilities of technology; the designs feature free and bold curves, and steel trusses in industrial settings.

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