Vesper No. 7 | Sky | Fall-Winter 2022
Silvia Dalzero
Città (volanti)
Keywords
Unknown, anticipatory, future, suspension, Carsten Höller
The voyage of
discovery of “(flying) cities” could be understood as a marked
aspiration to progress. Given with their ideal component, their anticipatory
attitude of the times, having as their ultimate aim that of prefiguring
imaginative realities, the architecture of the cities evoked here is used in
its languages, its limits and its possibilities for the future.
The sampling of
examples that will be evoked in this journey through flying cities, suggests
multiple architectures, always ready to reactivate a sinister, even sci-fi
image of structures and forms suspended from the ground, raised into the sky
and traversed by air and light: from Hayao Miyazaki's flying urban reality with
his fortress-city of Laputa, to Buckminster Fuller's Cloud 9 project,
from Tatlin's flying machine to El Lissitzky's Iron Cloud, to the flying
city designed by the Soviet artist-architect Krutikov in 1928 and today
reassembled by Carsten Höller and Yona Friedman's villes spatiales
floating in the air. In this heteroclitic journey, we will find ourselves
catapulted into a reality that is past and present but also ready to challenge
the unknown and envisage future flying cities, projected into an elsewhere yet
to be conquered and inhabited.
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