Neokoolhisms
The Generic Sublime 03
Harvard University
Cambridge, United States, 2012
Professor: Ciro Najle
Assistant: Lucas Correa
Students: Pablo Barría Urenda, Jeffrey Butcher, Mariano Gómez Luque, Lisl Kotheimer, Quardean Lewis-Allen, Nicholas Potts, Peter Zuroweste
Skyscraper collectives, tower agglomerations, bundles, clusters, and twins; waterfront developments, mixed-use developments, high-rise housing developments, housing marinas and luxury condominiums; airport hubs, corporate office enclaves, industrial parks, hotel complexes, conference, commercial, and financial centres; satellite cities, theme parks, thematic cities, branded cities, new central districts, gated communities: what is the potential latent in extraordinarily large urban typologies, currently restricted by the typological tradition of urbanism and the segregation of architectural domains?
Neokoolhisms loosens, with the candid force of a blunt force of an artistic invention, the untied straitjacket of redeeming urbanism by the skyscraper through sheer congestion. Neokoolhisms boosts the protocols of extraordinarily large developments through a radically operative approach to the concepts introduced by Rem Koolhaas since Delirious New York, now reconfigured as operative concepts for the generation of territorial-scale post-anti-urban models.
