BSc Unit 8 Yr 2: Keiichi Iwamoto, Daniel James Lane, Michael Christopher Pugh, Yuan Zhao, Alexander Zhukov. Yr 3: Emi Bryan, XueTing Cai, Theodore Games Petrohilos, Ben Hayes, Kaowen Ho, Ejiri Kenzo, Chiara Montgomerie, Olivia Pearson, Francis Roper, Yong Jun Song.
Good Night Past, Good Morning Future Good Night Past, Good Morning Future Scaled scenarios for cities of the future have forever been an indulgence of architects. The modern age has seen frequent utopian proposals, with Le Corbusier, Fuller and Frank Lloyd Wright being key names in advocating change. Technological advancements have now made some of these futures reality, while other discarded ideas have found a second life in museums and archives - cultural repositories for aspirations of the past, present and future. As far as built environments go, New York still stands as one of the ultimate examples of the advances of urban, technological and cultural thought, a realised utopia. We will take an interest in the histories that shaped our image of New York as a ‘city of the future’. Through these stories we will look at the city’s current state of evolution and propose imaginative, unexpected, perhaps strange, but compelling avenues for the city to follow. How can we glance a vision of the future in a city that has already seen it...?
Johan Berglund and Rhys Cannon
Clockwise from top left: Ben Hayes, The Harlem Experiment; Daniel Lane, Newspaper Archive; Emi Bryan, School of Illusion; Keiichi Iwamoto, 1:100 Colonisation Vessel; Francis Roper, Immigration Support Facility.