Dundee Lecture. Network Infrastructures and Heterotopias of Illusion; From Beaubourg to Bibao. D.G.

Shane Nov 2006

3 Articles 1. Figure ground drawings collection, patterns in urban development. 2. Recombinant urban Landscape; Use of landscape in Cities. 3. Heteropias 3; From Beaubourg to Bilbao.

Heterotopia Space of the other Michel Foucault (1964) 3 spatial systems, Emplacement, Extension and Relations 3 heterotopias, of crisis, of deviance, of illusion. Real places, not utopias..power relations.. places of change Importance as critique of modernism, abstract space. David Harvey and Ed Soja, Post-modern Geographies. Urban Actors, commons, networks, symbolic intermediaries. Electronic commons, Benjamin, McLuhan, Barthes, Baudrillard. Every system has a heterotopia so can create interior logic/order 1. Miniature. 2. Mirror code 3. Multiple cells Location in city move, hide inside, move outside, display. Handles exceptions, non-conforming objects, people, events, change. Heterotopic Networks; Ship as Perfect heterotopia Foucault.

Beaubourg 1971-79

Bibao Guggenheim 1996.

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...or reLearning from Las Vegas

Source: Metropolis Magazine, October 2001.

1972 . . . . . 2000
Source: The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping, Koolhaas, et. al., 2001.

1972 . . . . . 2000
Source: The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping, Koolhaas, et. al., 2001.

Source: The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping, Koolhaas, et. al., 2001.

1972 . . . . . . . . 2000

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiger_empress/158282085/

Source: The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping, Koolhaas, et. al., 2001.

Implosion of Sands Casino Source: http://www.pcap.com/sandsimp.htm

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/83482495@N00/267449503/

Source: The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping, Koolhaas, et. al., 2001.

Source: Learning from Las Vegas, Venturi, Scott Brown, Izenour, 1972.

Source: The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping, Koolhaas, et. al., 2001.

Fremont Street
then and now

Las Vegas Sprawl

context and evolution

Source: Recombinant Urbanism, Shane, 2005. Source: Learning from Las Vegas, Venturi, Scott Brown, Izenour, 1972.

Las Vegas Strip

Las Vegas BLVD

Enclave
Armature

E2
distinct enclaves linked by transportation channels

]E3[
compressed, polycentric attractors + media

-A2stretched armature

A3
scenographic route

Heterotopia

H2
heterotopia of deviance located outside of city

H3
heterotopia of illusion

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