Great article on our winning entry for the Build A Better Burb competition on Fast Company’s Co Design Blog by Suzanne LaBarre.
Alison Arieff on our Build A Better Burb competition entry — “Long Division, concerned about the contamination of Long Island’s aquifers, aims to establish a regional strategy to promote both growth and contraction. Proposing alternatives to conventional single family housing — like a compound that might include apartments and a community garden or another that consists of multifamily housing, communal space and small-scale retail — is an important strategy for developing more sustainable approaches to sprawl.”
The contemporary is less walls and towers than an enormous communication machine, a manifestation of the opening and domination of space and the connection of humanity. It is dynamic, not static. Its symbols are different, its plastic expression is defined through the elements of this communication, through signs of spatial order and organization, through the three-dimensional manifestations of its supply systems.
Hans Hollein, Bau: Schrift für Archietektur und Städtebau 20, no. 1 (1965) (Inaugural Issue) (via aggregat456)