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Social MachineAnthony Stahl

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241 pages

Version One Thesis StatementsTheory ResearchArchitecture

Anthony Stahl Doug Jackson Thesis Studio

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Visionary ArchitectureSpring 2011

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Contents:

241 pages

Version One Thesis StatementsTheory ResearchArchitecture

Anthony Stahl Doug Jackson Thesis Studio

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Visionary ArchitectureSpring 2011

Length:

Keywords:

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Metropolitan has evolved with a machine-like pragmatism; the pattern of which


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Problem SolutionThesis Statement

ThesisPrivate Sector

ConnectionsUrban Planning

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Social Infrastructures in the Hyper-Metropolis

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Social MachineAnthony Stahl Social Machine Preface


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Problem SolutionThesis Statement

ThesisPrivate Sector

ConnectionsUrban Planning

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Social Infrastructures in the Hyper-Metropolis

paradigm shifts and their associated revolutions.”

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City Growth

Slum RingsDensity

Hugh FerrisManhattan Model

Over Population ProblemsHistory of our Urban ModelData Problems AbroadWhat is Hyper-Urban?

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Problems with an Ever-expanding City: A path to destruction?

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Social MachineAnthony Stahl The City as Machine A path to destruction?


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City Growth

Slum RingsDensity

Hugh FerrisManhattan Model

Over Population ProblemsHistory of our Urban ModelData Problems AbroadWhat is Hyper-Urban?

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Problems with an Ever-expanding City: A path to destruction?

this is the city, repitition of parts thorughout sdfg

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Visions of a metropolitan future: Hugh Ferris

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“City under a single roof.”

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By an unspoken consensus, Manhattan is considered the archetype of the Metropolitan Condition, to the point where the two

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“I do not wish to imply that monumen-

that the work of an architect reaches

peculiar genius to guide a concept to-wards monumentality. I merely defend,

possesses the will to grow with the many angles of our development. For

his fellow workers.”

Paul Zucker

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Nice (Well to do Suburbia)

Nice (Wealthy Core)

American Condition

Extreme Poor (Slum Explosion)

Nice (Wealthy Core)

Emerging Country

Cannot Absorb : No Space, No Growth other than Verticle = More Ex-pensive = Less Access Deny Access to Social Resources:School, Infrastructure, Tech, Jobs

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50 years

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MILLION479

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1960 2000 2010

American Population: 307,006,550

Latin A.106,516,538 390,527,319 456,920,012

350 Million People 50 years 49% 75% 82%

HIC436,905,023 728,150,228 789,240,983


America126,469,700 223,198,052 251,748,760

30 Million People in 50 years66% 79% 82%

China106,731,200 452,026,910 585,842,400

16% 36% 44%

Malnourished20,822,731 141,012,481 202,247,050

175,900,000

HIPCHeavily Indebted Poor Countries

181 Million People 50 years


87% 12% 75% 32%

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Latin A.106,516,538 390,527,319 456,920,012


HIC436,905,023 728,150,228 789,240,983


America126,469,700 223,198,052 251,748,760


China106,731,200 452,026,910 585,842,400

16% 36% 44%

Malnourished20,822,731 141,012,481 202,247,050

175,900,000




87% 12% 75% 32%

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1960 2000 2010


Latin A.106,516,538 390,527,319 456,920,012


HIC436,905,023 728,150,228 789,240,983


America126,469,700 223,198,052 251,748,760


China106,731,200 452,026,910 585,842,400

16% 36% 44%

Malnourished20,822,731 141,012,481 202,247,050

175,900,000




87% 12% 75% 32%

1960 2000 2010


Latin A.106,516,538 390,527,319 456,920,012


HIC436,905,023 728,150,228 789,240,983


America126,469,700 223,198,052 251,748,760


China106,731,200 452,026,910 585,842,400

16% 36% 44%

Malnourished20,822,731 141,012,481 202,247,050

175,900,000




87% 12% 75% 32%

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foremost vertical metropolis

PER YEAR

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83,4611,065441

Continuouslyfor 26 Years !

1980 Pop. 30,0002006 Pop. 10,000,000

Shengzen

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future city is the ruin itself.”

-kyo, Japan 1960-1961

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Johnson, Haarmann, Johnson, Clawson, “World regional Geography” Tenth Edition

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petuating cycle of growth”

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Machine Tradition

Hall-StyleInterchangeability

ManufacturingAmerican Style

Manufacturing

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Production and its influence on modern american thinking and the contemporary form of the city.

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Social MachineAnthony Stahl The American Model A Machine Tradition

“More than si million visitors gapedd thier awestruck way through the massive

nation at the top of its imperial game. 1851”

1851. It was just one of several alarming (to the British) demonstrations of American technical prowess.”

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stocking lathe was a radical

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way of going to the point at once, that I was quite struck with: there is great simplicity… no orna-

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-tion of iron, steel and coal operations and the industrialization of food production.” Mega-machine is also appropriate to characterize the megaorginizations and cities that arose in the scale transistion.

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Reflecting on Compartamentalization

DivisionCentral Park

Compromizing through mixtureRunning through the Louvre

Isolation and Transportation parallelsReflecting on “Congestion of Content”

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Social culture in the 21st century and its influnce on how we experience ‘Urban’

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Social MachineAnthony Stahl Social America Social culture in the 21st century


Contents:

8 pages

Reflecting on Compartamentalization

DivisionCentral Park

Compromizing through mixtureRunning through the Louvre

Isolation and Transportation parallelsReflecting on “Congestion of Content”

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Keywords:

Social culture in the 21st century and its influnce on how we experience ‘Urban’

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Social Issues in Contemporary Society

The horizontal windows of Cor-

and laminating it into one di-mension, something that we

-rience, only skin deep judgment.

judgment on a glimpse, and

what we want?

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Everything and nothing, all at once, all the time. In a world with a congestion

-standing of the indivisual pieces. Our understanding of ourselves and our lives

-ingly unimportant parts

Life is a composition of parts, when the

leads a compromised life.

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-way transportation decentralizes our population cen-

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“The highway will continue to play a vital role in the

life for our future.”

Order in Architecture 1957

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equally as important as the architecture of movement. Center city is a place to go – not through. The street

also in city and in cars, in the supermarkets, in the cin-emas, on the motorways.. shining intersections points of relationships…

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Social Machine Infrastructure

Donut GrowthInfrastructure

InterjectionInterventionChange over TimeVertical CommunityConnections

Aims of the InfrastructureProblems with ReinventionCritiques of Visionary Urban SchemesModel for better Future

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A Machine for the Generation of New Socio-Urban Enviornments

The issues threatening to harm our current and future cities can be categorized

into two basic groupings: 1) Physical and 2) Social.

a vertical environment

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Social MachineAnthony Stahl Brace Infrastructure A machine for the generation of new socio-urban enviornments


Contents:

24 pages

Social Machine Infrastructure

Donut GrowthInfrastructure

InterjectionInterventionChange over TimeVertical CommunityConnections

Aims of the InfrastructureProblems with ReinventionCritiques of Visionary Urban SchemesModel for better Future

Length:

Keywords:

A Machine for the Generation of New Socio-Urban Enviornments

“What if we simply declare that there is

-porters, more than ever the city is all we have.”

From: S,M,L,XL OMA 2005

the real nature of things, represent the

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universality of inspirations in a city with endless potential for growth.”

Louis I. Kahn: Writings, Lectures, Inter-viewsAlessandra Latour 1991

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Destroy the Current typology of the City/Tower?

“Living in order to work! This

driving ourselves mad, moral

-alities of nature plunging into

So men have grouped them-selves together. Why? In order to struggle for improvement in their lives? In order to suffer! To have gone so far to have al-lowed ourselves to drift so far in our cities- all our cities- that the human mechanism has run off the rails, so that we are mere

Frontal dimension: As soon as one starts to incline planes to get rid of the vertical, the re-lationship with the horizontal changes, gravity does not come into place in the perception of space in the same way at all. We work with gravity in a new way,

with the user, either speeding up or slowing down, speed comes into play. The individual is al-ways in a state of resistance.

-rique Limon

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“That life is not only lived in

for some small parallel lives,

the supermarkets, in the cine-mas, on the motorways.. shining intersections points of relation-ships…”

Archigram 1977

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Superstudio - Continuous Monument

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is will to power.”

Superstudio - Continuous Monument

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“Somewhere in the 19th cen-

developed an unprecedented condition: through the simulta-

-nologies and human population on their limited territories, they found themselves supporting the mutant form of human co-

-tropolis.”

OMA

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The Metropolis invalidates all the previous systems of articu-lation and differentiation that have traditionally guided the design of cities. The Metropolis annuls the previous history of architecture.

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it has also generated its own

the “splendeurs et misres” of

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throughs and achievements that has remained largely outside

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The 10% of the city mass that

really even less reserved than that. Much of the street is in-

-tural systems dedicated to the

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lic social space, or space for people to interact in sponta-neous and productive ways,

support the city itself.

In a perfect world, as the city mass grows, the space for people to interact would grow in some proportional manner, retaining the 50 to 50 ratio that the city started at.

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of the city, such that the center of gravity of the city included in-frastructure systems dedicated to the people as well as to the city itself (the city proper).

do this. To require developers, owners and investors to include

-ciency, therefore rendering the

-cially. Therefore this type of

the city itself, will never come to pass.

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A Supplementary System

Expanding ReactionGrowing ConceptUniversal Theory

Extrude Public Realm Realm of RealityReasons for Physicality

EconomicsDe-Compartmentalize City

Unlock Social Potential

THE CITY

Catalyze Re-Define RespectTHE TYPOLOGY THE RULES

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Tower

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A machine for the generation of new socio-urban enviornments

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The city grows vertically around the most valu-

the distance from the earth-the more unnatural the location-the closer the communication with what remains of nature (i.e., light, air, views, etc.) The elevator and the highrises that it allows for is

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“Through the mutual reinforcement of the eleva-

-out itself taking any space), any given site in the

-scraper, prime instrument of the architecture of density.”

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Model For the Future

ElevationsReaction as Design

Infrastructure Goals

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Infrastructure as an authored being, a Monument to the power of people.

Implemented Over Time: Reaction is the new Design

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Social MachineAnthony Stahl Solution - Social Machine Infrastructure as authorable being


Contents:

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Model For the Future

ElevationsReaction as Design

Infrastructure Goals

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Infrastructure as an authored being, a Monument to the power of people.

Contemporary notion of what is architec-

-ture as Gimmick…. What ever happened to space?

Bjarke Ingels Group, Walter Towers

Classical notions of architect as designer, revolves around space. Is architecture now 2-dimensional?

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architecture, as opposed to the architecture of monarchy or a to-talitarian state. One architecture

-land of Manhattan, for all of its

prototype of where were heading.

simply spread.”

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Controlling Change

Growth ZonesPerception in a city

ManufacturingRe-defining the GridChange over time

History and Cities, what does it mean?Case Study: OMA City in PenangCreating Vertical Neighborhoods

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Creating, Controlling and Harnessing Change

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Social MachineAnthony Stahl Architecture as Catalyst Creating, controlling and harnessing change

3-d Growth Zones:

relationships of these programs and placing them with the correct relationships

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Reexamining perspective and perception within a city: Diagonal movement

systems.

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from a point of high value and growing from there.

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History in Three dimensions:

“In a pluralistic society, there are multiple needs. In a society which also has an inheritance of violence, and destruction, and fracture of moral standard, archi-

-mentality titillating or anything like that. It truly has a role, and organizing role, which produces satisfying results for people who live and for the few years they have to live.”

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Clarity of the Infrastucture’s Program: Creating the division of use in life and

architecture, a Case Study: Museum as a Social Machine: what has the Museum

become, how has it integrated multiple uses?

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Case Study: OMA: “Ciudad Tropical de Penang” Highly segregated program at

the urban scale Quotes and thoughts abridged and reinterpreted by myself after

reading El Iroquois

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Manhattan Research

TowerSkyline

the StandardEast Village

Site applicabilityBreaking the rules of ManhattanTypology of the City

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Manhattan

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Social MachineAnthony Stahl Site Manhattan

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Manhattan 1938

Manhattan 2012

Manhattan 2009

Manhattan 1938

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East Village, Astor Place Skyline

Typology of new developments in East and West Sides

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contemporary notion of a skyscraper in a city.

Total disconnect realized. If this is the model of our architecture in cities, what happens to the city itself?

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(25 Stories +)

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SITE

Site after 75 years with no Social Machine (given current model of

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City with social machine in center of site. Takes advantage of nega-

into the vertical realm.

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the ground, city destroys

unproductive and non-social.

every major city.)

found in small city street settings)

from ground plane into the mass of the city, allowing for new ty-pologies, connections and archi-tecture to emerge.

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Hudson Tunnel Site

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Zoning three Dimensions

Light-railCommunity

PromenadeVisual and physical ConnectionsChange

New Transportation SystemsOutcomes of the MachineRendersRules of GrowthRules of ConnectionsCodes

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The Architecuture of Architecture: Urbanization in Three Dimensions

Breaking the grid

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Social MachineAnthony Stahl Zoning Urbanization in three dimensions

connect to the social machine that is

this negates the need for any large for-mal entrance as a normal skyscraper or vertical street scheme would need. This also allows people to enter the machine from multiple places on the

as oppose to traditional vertical move--

rectly under the place they would like to go.

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stantly moving things, much like a mov-ing walkway in an airport. There is no stop an go, the system only slows and quickens as it passes through points

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or a autonomous transportation system such as a railway or metro.

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Zoning and Economics: Predicting and Motivating Growth : Value hierarchies,

incentives for building public space, growth codes

First Tier:

and the mechanisms for allocation,

place.” - Zhou Xiaochuan

-mum height of 15 stories in order to minimize their environmental impacts on the ground plane.

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Second Tier:

must take place along circulation cor-ridors in the machine. These connec-

can use these places as social space as

storefronts, cafes, outdoor seating etc.

By instilling these rules, movement

like traversing large monotonous walk-

a hillside italian town, where every hillside and storefront is different. This

evolve, each connection and part of the

on the ground.

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Mini-Machines + Transportation Subsidies

Mini Machines:

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Transportation Systems:

Expiration Ordinances

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Ratio of Connection Space: Second Tier

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light rail systems found in Japan or China. Because

replaced over time, adapting to the needs of the city.

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room in which the passengers sit it.

through the social machine, although a future car

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-ning through the city like no other transportation system currently does.

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Contents:

22 pages

History of the Park



History of TheatreTheatre TypologiesProgram and application

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Research and Architectural Manifestation

The Opportunity for Perfect Design

What is it to be social? What will the Machine be?

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Social MachineAnthony Stahl Machine Program Park for the performing arts


Contents:

22 pages

History of the Park



History of TheatreTheatre TypologiesProgram and application

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Park for Visual Consumption:

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Throughout time performing arts venues and parks have shaped the way a city grows and is perceived. It

and shape this new three dimensional environment consists of the same thing. In this way, despite the rel-

-what familiar to the metropolitan dweller, making the transition to living in this new space that much easier.

Plan of Priene, from Armin von Gerkan, 1924

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A manuscript showing how the Weinmarkt of Lucerne was ar-ranged for the performance of the passion play in 1513. If now

totally reconstruct spatially a rigid market place, transforming Plan of Trinidad, 1924

Plan of Milerus, the theatre is the semi-circular ele-ment enar the water at the left, 1924

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and each with its original ante-room.

Teatro di Pergamo, Asia Minore

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Teatro della Scienna

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The aim of the infrastructure is to create spaces that rival great squares and corridors of the great cites of the world. Given that

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fro these to develop over time. The key is to create environments

space.

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Cordova, Spain

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India Vienna, Austria

Paris, France

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Takashi Murakami at the Louvre

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Opera House: Change the Typology?

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Aesthetic of the Opera House

enhancing the art of theatre if you want

are drawn to the theatre to share in a

intellectual sympathies when people cry. In modern theatre the patron is

to develop theatre separate from their

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Spatial Representation in the Machine

“The entire theatre, its audience ar-

its physical appearance, even its loca-tion within the city, are all important

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plore some of the implications of these more neglected aspects of the physical

of demonstrating not only how such

cultural concerns and suppositions of

even more important, how they may serve to stimulate or to reinforce within audiences certain ideas of what theatre represents within their society and how

interpreted and integrated into the rest of their social and cultural life.”

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Park for the performing arts

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Social MachineAnthony Stahl Machine Program

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