L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui #378
Guest Editor in chief: Winy Maas, MVRDV and T?F
In the summer of 2010 architecture is witnessing a situation best described as complex, confusing and uncertain. In the midst of the quest for survival, meaning and balanced choice, this uncertainty is also source of innovation and creation, a source for curiosity, over the fear, protectionism, conformism and repetition.
The Vertical Village
Individual, Informal, Intense
The architecture practice MVRDV and The Why Factory envision a new model for the development of Asian cities. Their idea is The Vertical Village, a three-dimensional community intended to bring back personal autonomy, diversity, flexibility and neighbourhood life to cities in Asia.
Hong Kong Fantasies
A Visual Expedition into the Future of a World-Class City
This book fantasizes that Hong Kong—a city struggling to hold on to its reputation as a world financial center, a global shopping Valhalla, and a livable city with compelling architecture and magnificent nature—makes a comeback as an exemplary world-class city.What does it take, in our global economy, to be a world-class city?
City Shock
Planning the Unexpected
In a world where forecasting seems futile, where predictions are unreliable, and where even the most absurd scenarios are plausible, many urban planning decisions seem to be governed not by vision – but by fear. Fear of disaster, fear of change, fear of the unknown. Can we learn from ‘fear’? Can we even use it as a guide for spatial planning? City Shock explores ten innocent ‘what ifs’. What kinds of radical trend breaks can we expect, and with what effects?
Visionary Cities
12 Reasons for Claiming the Future of Our Cities
Visionary Cities is a pamphlet serving as an introduction to The Why Factory as a new research/design institute. Being the first publication of the series, the pamphlet aims at giving the public an overview of the problematic The Why Factory is addressing as well as stating its ambition, the modus operandi for the coming years of its production.
The Why Factor(y)
Why? Why Not? Why Don't We?
This book is based on the inaugural speech by Winy Maas at October 15, 2009 to mark the acceptance of the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology, the opening of the Why Factory in Delft by Dutch Minister of Education and Culture Ronald Plasterk and the symposium “My Future City”, where a variety of students, inhabitants, architects, urbanists, thinkers, developers, politicians, technicians offer their future city…