March 06, 2005
Rem Koolhaus: Sea Terminal
An architectural form that is about the networks of transport and communication:
Rem Koolhaas, Zeebrugge Sea Terminal, Belgium.
Some background on Koolhaas here.
Does this building capture modernity's promise of liberation and its transitoriness? Does it go beyond architecture as a commodity? Clearly it is not simply architecture as art. Does it reside somewhere in a space between architecture as commodity and art?
Is this a rewriting of modernity? Should architecture see its task as coming to terms with our experience of modernity and our desire for dwelling?
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at March 6, 2005 03:06 PM | TrackBackComments
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