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Fumihiko Maki and his view of the city

December 12, 2013

Fumihiko Maki and his view of the city

Page from the book 10 Stories of Collective Housing

"This diagram, which appears in later versions of the Maki text, Collective Form, Three Paradigms, is a schematic representation of three ways of classifying the Collective Form. The first type, Compositional Form (7), is based on rules of composition and encompassing the cases of planned cities such as Chandigarh or Brasilia. The second, the Megaform (8) is present in Metabolist projects such as the Agricultural City by Kurowaka or the Tokyo Bay development by Tange Lab. Lastly, the Group Form pertains to, for instance, the stepped villages of the Greek islands or the Dogon villages where time is the key player. Hillside Terrace could be identified with the third diagram as its formal resolution is far removed from any composition or style by the author and yet at the same time it eschews this idea of grandeur which is often associated with megastructures". a+t research group

(7) Résidence Point du Jour by Fernand Pouillon may likewise be considered an example of Compositional Form.
(8) The Jeanne Hachette complex by Jean Renaudie has several features in common with the Megastructures.

Published in the chapter devoted to Hillside Terrace, by Maki, in the book 10 Stories of Collective Housing, by a+t research group.

 

 

 


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