Four Design Links: September 17, 2009
It's wouldn't be Thursday without Four Design Links. Get 'em while they're piping hot!
1. How do you build for evil?
This fall, Kazys Varnelis
is teaching a graduate architecture studio on the topic of evil.
If one simply does not care about playing by the rules of the game, but only about seizing power to further one’s own ends, it becomes possible to shed layers of complexity and thereby continue society.
The human cost, of course, is quite high, as Mussolini’s quest to get the trains to run on time in Italy demonstrates. Still, with the recent economic success of authoritarian regimes—and the open advocacy of such regimes as clients by notable architects such as OMA—evil is on the table again as an option for architects to pursue.
This studio looks at how one might design for an evil client... How do you build for evil?
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