Apr 3, 05:43 pm
LAYER online magazine features "Dubai: Photoshop Urbanism" article
“Architectural programs are becoming fused and undifferentiated. The morphology of the landscape and seascape is becoming fabricated to the point that it may soon be difficult to differentiate between the natural and the constructed…The island is the lowest form of spatial organization. Pure accumulation, it has an iconic form and a certain perimeter and location. It can be reached by dramatic arriving (compare here with Venice’s Lido and Florida’s Key West). The surface of the island reveals everything there is, all contents; islands are fundamentally consistent and predictable: they give an assurance of security. But they have potentials; they are exclusive.”
Project by GEORGE KATODRYTIS / STUDIONOVA: PALM ISLAND CULTURAL CENTER, 2003:
(in collaboration with DXB LAB and Steffen Lehmann)
www.layermag.com
www.layermag.com/feature_dubai_georgeK
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