An attempt to understand the contemporary city at a moment when globalisation has exploded its scale beyond our grasp. Abandoning topography,ideology, representation, and context, the authors resort to pure data to discover what agenda for architecture and urbanism a numerical approach could provoke.
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a really nice try,
By daniel lazo perez (Santiago, Chile) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Metacity/Datatown (Paperback)
Above all, I liked this book because of the architectural lab goal that achieved, essentially it's an urban excercise based (and this is what makes it interesting)on real extrapolated data extracted from diverse cities of Dutchland.It's a game of cause and effect,playing with different urban models that have been applied on different cities around the world and at the same time with the concecuenses of it.I think that is a really good example about how to analize the actual concept of the city based on pure shear data,on an experimental level.What I really missed ,about the book, was a conclusion or some kind of resolutions extracted from the whole excercise more than the sole purpose of doing it,but still, it's an excellent book.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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New insights,
By Atomu "ar_hoi" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Metacity/Datatown (Paperback)
In architecture we collect all sorts of data and statistics for our design projects without knowing how to make use of them. MVRDV in this project show us how they can re-present the data in a new way that creates some meaningful consequences. They have demonstrated a way to deal with overloaded data and information which opens up a new opportunity for me.
0 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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A Very Good Book,
By "gserfaty" (Herzelia Israel) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Metacity/Datatown (Paperback)
I saw this book at a friends house, and after a few minutes i decided i just have to buy it. If you're intrested or work in architecture - buy it.
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