TY - JOUR
T1 - Why architectural design and research are not more relevant in the real world?
AU - Komac, Urša
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Architecture, to be successful, has to be influential and relevant. It cannot thrive by itself, apart from the world. Resources are limited. Costs and benefits are not borne only by the client. The growing suburbia, based on standardised vulgarisation of styles of the past has become to be the most successful contemporary residential typology. Suburbia is not only prevalent, in its most vile form, in North America and, in a more amiable form, in Europe, but it’s threatening to attract the aspirational middle class in the overpopulated, thriving emerging economies. The ongoing transfer of the office park, shopping mall and detached suburban house model is leading to construction of horrendously unliveable mega-non-cities like Jakarta or Kuala Lumpur. I believe architects should influence decision-makers on the search of alternatives to make cities walkable, cyclable, connected, and efficient. These alternatives must lie beyond the mixture of naïveté and kitsch of the so-called New Urbanism.
AB - Architecture, to be successful, has to be influential and relevant. It cannot thrive by itself, apart from the world. Resources are limited. Costs and benefits are not borne only by the client. The growing suburbia, based on standardised vulgarisation of styles of the past has become to be the most successful contemporary residential typology. Suburbia is not only prevalent, in its most vile form, in North America and, in a more amiable form, in Europe, but it’s threatening to attract the aspirational middle class in the overpopulated, thriving emerging economies. The ongoing transfer of the office park, shopping mall and detached suburban house model is leading to construction of horrendously unliveable mega-non-cities like Jakarta or Kuala Lumpur. I believe architects should influence decision-makers on the search of alternatives to make cities walkable, cyclable, connected, and efficient. These alternatives must lie beyond the mixture of naïveté and kitsch of the so-called New Urbanism.
KW - suburbs
KW - public spaces
KW - architecture
UR - http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:52352
UR - https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/revlae/article/view/4791
M3 - Article
SN - 1646-592X
VL - 11
SP - 573
EP - 578
JO - Revista Lusofona de Arquitectura e Educacao / Lusofona Journal of Architecture and Education
JF - Revista Lusofona de Arquitectura e Educacao / Lusofona Journal of Architecture and Education
ER -