This lecture was presented at the ArtEZ Academy for Architecture in Arnhem, in the framework of 'Lightness > Utopia' a lecture series and workshop curated by Martine de Wit/DUS Architects.
13. The New Atlantis
Francis Bacon, 1626
http://www.constitution.org/bacon/new_atlantis.htm
Optics and
Astronomy
14. The New Atlantis
Francis Bacon, 1626
http://www.constitution.org/bacon/new_atlantis.htm
Genetic
Modification
15. The New Atlantis
Francis Bacon, 1626
http://www.constitution.org/bacon/new_atlantis.htm
Communication
16. Campo Marzio
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1762)
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3171144?uid=3738736&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21101517121243
17. Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma (1762)
Eisenman Architects, Yale University, Dogma
http://news.yale.edu/2012/07/16/yale-school-architecture-professor-and-students-reinvent-rome-venice-biennale
20. 500.000 BC - 1850
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(against forces)
1850-1950
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(transitional)
1950 >>>
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(natural)
Richard Buckminster Fuller
Man on Earth: Transport Species
21. 26% of earth’s surface is dry land.
85% of all earth’s dry land is here shown.
86% of all dry land shown is above equator.
The whole of the human family could stand on Bermuda.
All crowded into England they would have 14sq. mtr. each.
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“United we stand, divided we fall”
is correct mentally and spiritually but
falacious physically or materially.
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2,000,000,000 new homes will be required in the next 80
years.
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Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1928
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22. “We are concerned
with mooring first
class habitation
to the earth’s surface.”
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Richard Buckminster Fuller (1932)
(a precognition of 21th century heterotopias)
25. bi·o·mass
/’bīō¸mas/
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Noun
1. The total quantity or weight of organisms in a given area or volume.
2. Organic matter used as a fuel.
3. Organic matter perceived as a form of transitory intelligence