ARCHITECTURAL TRANSFORMATION AND FUTURE CITY

Architectural Transformation And Re-Presentation Of The Future City Concept

[Institution Name]Architectural Transformation And Re-Presentation Of The

Future City Concept

Table of Conetents

Chapter I: Introduction3

Significance of the Study3

Objectives of the Study3

Research Approach3

Hypothesis4

Chapter II : Literature Review5

Chapter III: Research Methodology13

References14

Bibliography16

Architectural Transformation And Re-Presentation Of The

Future City Concept

Chapter I: Introduction

Significance of the Study

Visions about the Future City have always been a result of the prevalent concerns and movements of the times. A critical reading of past visions of the Future City should reveal trends that could help us understand how we envision today's Future City. Such understanding provides insight and important directions affecting our approach to planning and architectural decisions, which by default are decisions taken today to affect our lives in the future. This thesis is designed with this as its objective.

Objectives of the Study

It seeks to develop an understanding of the trends that affect our visions of the future as a means of integrating this understanding into our planning and design approaches. Such trends can be revealed through a critical study of how past visions of the Future City are born and how our cities actually come to form over time.

Research Approach

The adopted research approach relies on an interpretive critical reading of past case studies of the Future City by a variety of thinkers and designers over time.

Hypothesis

The study began with a simple interest in the idea that nothing is static, that in nature there is an element of constant change, a relentless updating of the present condition. The study seeks to investigate architecture as curiously the at most guilty of resisting this inevitable change. From instruments of immortality (the great Pyramids), to monuments of state or individual power, to crystallized utopian skyscrapers in the desert, the history of architecture is filled with examples of buildings that act to assert man's control over nature, over time, over change. (Bacon, 2010)

This is a hypothesis that assumes the opposite, that architecture must not only admit its own vulnerabilities and susceptibilities to time and change, but that it can take advantage of the nature of transformation to inform its creation and its interaction with not just the contemporary condition but a future one - to develop new roles and create new meanings for itself and its context.

How does one question not just how architecture lives and functions in the present, but changes and transforms over time? How does one design a building to outlast the temporality of its program, and become a catalyst for future architectures? How does such an architecture begin to interact with the past, applying its transformations and operations to its site, its narratives and fictions?

Chapter II : Literature Review

Well, once upon a time a farmer plowed a piece of land, a shepherd built a fence, and land use, land design, and architecture began. People banded together for protection from the elements, from other people. They banded together for collective hunting, for farming, for trading. First in caves, then in ...