18 – Junkspace – Rem Koolhaas & the End of Architecture
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Modernism and the Joint
Urban agglomerations have always been the product of layered intents and an airport is like that, Heathrow has got a single driving purpose but there's a myriad of layered int desires. The joint in modernism is no longer a problem, an intellectual issue, transitional moments are defined by stapling and taping. verbs unknown and unthinkable in architectural history, clamps, stick, fold, dump, glue, shoot, double, fuse have become indispensable. Instead of trying to rest order from chaos, the picturesque is now rested from the homogenized, the singular liberated from the standardized.
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