Beschreibung
des Entwurfs-programmes |
Invisible cities, written by Italo Calvino in 1972, represents conversations between the emperor Kublai Khan and the explorer Marco Polo. The book consists of prose poems describing fictitious cities, which can be read as metaphors or allegories on time, memory, death, love, loneliness (Cities and Desire, Cities and Signs, Cities and Eyes …) or the varieties of human experience.
«…From the number of imaginable cities we must exclude those whose elements are assembled without a connecting thread, an inner rule, a perspective, a discourse. With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. (...) Cities also believe they are the work of the mind or of chance, but neither the one nor the other suffices to hold up their walls. You take delight not in a city`s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours...”
As an architect each student should have an internal image of an ideal city, be it a trace of a real experience or a dream. We encourage each student to recreate a portion of this city which will border the city of their colleague, making up a group ideal city (group project, clay model).
The next task will be to develop a detail of this ideal city in a large scale (single project).
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Thematische und methodische Schwerpunkte |
Entwurf, Staedtebau, Modellbau, Visualisierungen, Denkmalpflege |
