Thename comes to mind on its own: the NEW DISORDER. New, that is, according to the logic of marketing better, more perfect, worthwhile, nomen omen. That it doesn't hold water? Nonsense. Since we are doomed to chaos, let's make sure it's disorder with a human face. A mottled one, according to local taste, but at least comfortable and safe. Because today's version of it is not only a confusion of forms, colors and materials, but also a lack of logic and dysfunctionality of space, which, as scientists from the Polish Academy of Sciences counted a year ago, costs us 90 billion zlotys a year. Not to mention the mental health of citizens (a thing to be decently studied).
So, let there be a decent think tank behind the New Disorder, which the architectural bodies should organize with the participation of other branches: from cognitive scientists, sociologists, economists, specialists in greenery, communications, air quality, and various kinds of researchers and analysts. And, not to kick down an open door: it's worth cooperating with regional and national initiatives that have been working for local spaces for years. And on the other hand - to establish close relations with the New Bauhaus, especially since (congratulations!) we have our own man there - Hubert Trammer.
There is abang of work ahead of the think tank: painstaking, retail, not really for show, sometimes nervous in the face of crises or climate change. What we have set in Poland will not move for years, but can be civilized. Sew together what is, look for connections, apply a lot of urban and architectural micro-interventions, green up, clean up, minimize waste. But also write meaningful laws and regulations.
So: great design, but not great building - an activity belonging rather to the category of Bigness, which Koolhaas wrote about a quarter of a century ago. A capacious and contradictory category.
Bigness is the point at which architecture becomes both the most and the least architectural: the most because of the immensity of the object: the least because of the loss of autonomy, the famous Dutchman argued and explained: umbilical cords connect it to other disciplines, whose influence is as decisive as that of the architect himself [...] the creators of Bigness are a team (a word that has been absent from architecture for forty years).
There will be blood, sweat and tears ahead for the Polish team (if it is built), but the result is worth it. You definitely want to see this strip in the "News":
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