Ch 12 History 3 _ Research
should be designed to celebrate culture. He emphasizes the conflict and connection between industrial and postindustrial period. Eric Owen Moss expresses this architecture idea in Hayden tract, Culver City. Samitaur Smiths is the developer of Culver City. Samitaur has an idea to create a district, allowing people to have art and hope. Samitaur can’t find anyone else except Eric Owen Moss to understand his idea. Culver City was an industrial zone, yet as post industry arrives, the warehouses are abandoned, and the city is declined. In order to insert life in the city, the warehouses need to transform to something more attractive. Instead of tearing down the warehouses and making everything new, Moss finds a way to reuse the warehouses and keep the culture of Culver City. In many of Moss’s design in Hayden tract, “the box” is one of the buildings that reuse the existing warehouse and express the industrial culture. “The box” is a cut-open box on top of a warehouse. The box has a simple, strong and sharp geometry, which reminds people of efficiency of the factory. However, there are sliced, shifted and missing parts in the box to create a complex geometry. The transformation of the box doesn’t seem to be intentional, but it seems the pieces are falling apart from the box. It creates a sense of deconstruction, and the deconstructive box creates a feeling of a declining industrial culture. The box’s overall image feels like a torn down industrial factory falling on to the warehouse. The connection between the box and the warehouse appears unstable because the box stands in a degree. It seems to symbolize the conflict between industry and post industry, and it is the way Moss gains the contexture from the site and culture. The conflict between industry and post industry is expressed in the building
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