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Rem Koolhaus: Sea Terminal « Previous | |Next »
March 06, 2005

An architectural form that is about the networks of transport and communication:

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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?

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