Stills from Godfrey Reggio's "Koyaanisqatsi : Life Out of Balance"(1983). A film of tremedous scope setting ariel and time-lapse images to the music of Phillip Glass.
Voronoi Diagram (definition) of world population density. (source)Link to a Voronoi driven Java Applet.
Link to Swiss academics making a "programmed architectural object" using the Voronoi Diagram.
Link to a page about proxemics, the study of space between people.
An archiectural fantasy by Paolo Soleri from his book "Arcology: The City in the Image of Man". Soleri took the idea of urbanism to its limits in the middle of the last century by proposing one-building cities. 'Arcology' is his conflation of the words 'architecture' and 'ecology'.This rendering of the logical conclusion of a technocratic civilization is undeniably imaginative. Its more nightmarish aspect reminds me of the 1909 science fiction story "The Machine Stops" (link to the full text).
There is a community in the Arizona desert who are carrying out Soleri's ideas.
Link to the Arcosanti Project website.
5 comments:
Koyaanisqatsi is one of my favorite movies!
I saw it in a painting seminar for the first time a few years ago. Recently, I got it off Amazon and have watched it once a week for the last month.
So this is the type of things that are occupying you when you are not obsessing over the best way to add a new wing to the keep a Caer Mabon.
I enjoy the architectural model.
who aint seen Koyaanisqatsi that went to art school?
I agree. It's an important work.
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