a city without architecture

No Stop City
archizoom

 «No-Stop City» (1969) is an ironic critique of the ideology of architectural modernism taking onto its absurd limits: «The real revolution in radical architecture is the revolution of kitsch: mass cultural consumption, pop art, an industrial-commercial language. There is the idea of radicalizing the industrial component of modern architecture to the extreme.»
(Andrea Branzi)

«A city without architecture, therefore, where the urban landscape (cityscape) was formed by large anonymous containers, mechandise, industrial products, the plankton of data and the market.»
(Andrea Branzi)

«(...) the modern seen as a way of freeing people from culture and not as an opportunity to formulate a different culture. The various forms of an absolute secularism, and the downfall of al manner of qualitative utopia, thus making way for the only possible utopia of quantity, represented a liberating aspect (...)"
Andrea Branzi)
 

No Stop City is leading directly to projects of Archigram and Funpalace of Cedric Price.

Goolge Research Center - Zürich


The research center of google could be a possible interpretation of nowadays No-Stop City.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPz1Mou-Xxk&feature=player_embedded

Data Centers

Traces of the virtual world...
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/