ARC132H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Adolf Loos, Panopticon, Commuter Town
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Lecture 10 architecture as utopia i: house / housing. Recall module 2: tectonics, transparency, ornament, machine aesthetics: rhetoric of functionalism = myth in arc, mod. Arc = complex, sophisticated endeavour: reyner banham idea of machine aesthetics (promoted by arc of mod. movement) = Most mod. buildings look like machines, but don t work like machines. Arc: arc can be used to change society for the better. * utopia - an imaginary and indefinitely remote place; a place of ideal perfection. * dystopia an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives: used to describe metropolis, mod. Arc tried to make ideal society in which social relations = more harmonious . But created dystopia (inequality + control: modernist projects to improve life of lower-income groups. Tension btwn mod. architects to make dreams + nightmares. Le corbusier, unite d"habitation, marseille, 1947-52 vs. yamasaki, pruitt-igoe, st. louis,
