Saturday, December 03, 2005

I visited the suburbs today. I'd try to write something acidic and clever about the experience -- or, more precisely, the pronounced lack of experience -- but it looks like I already covered the topic last year.
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5 comments:

Carol Maltby said...

Er, those neat arches at Arcosanti are actually areas such as the ceramic studio. If you look at some of the models for projected arocologies they involve "standardized structures" (i.e., Levittown stacked) for the bulk of the habitation.

Roger Dean does really wonderful hobbitty sort of architecture too, and I think we have a hardwired response to wanting caves like that. But I don't think that we as a culture (and I mean "the Western World") have the will or courage to adopt radical changes to our lifestyles.

12:12 PM
Carol Maltby said...

Here's some of Roger Dean's wonderful architectural work:

http://www.rogerdean.com/architecture/willowater.htm

Watch that bit about plastic gnomes, though. My own decor depends on a fair amount of trolls and plastic donosaurs. :)

12:16 PM
Gerald T said...

This is the anti burbs Man!
I love his blog, on my top 5 list, PHB being numb 1 of corz!

http://www.kunstler.com/index.html

12:30 PM
Mac said...

A stacked Levittown? I don't like the sound of that...

I regret not getting to see Arcosanti when I was in Arizona in January. Hopefully next time.

6:09 PM
Carol Maltby said...

Let me see them build it in New Jersey, then we'll talk about it being viable.
Geez, Radburn was too radical for them...

Think of all the really stupid, venal, nasty, superficial people you know.

Then think of them doing it for 200 years.

It's Post-Human Paradise (tm)!

{She intoned cheerfully, checking her watch to see if it's time for the soylent green snack before playing the Xbox Tesseract]

8:23 PM

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