Based on previous presentation: 5 Rumors of Cities, altered and added 1 vision for Design. A short talk for NCTU Architecture School's Open Studio 2012 Event. Thanks for the invitation by David C Tseng, professor from NCTU.

1. 5 RUMORS
+ 1 VISION
of cities
for design

2. RUMOR 1:
URBAN DESIGN IS DEAD (?)

3. URBAN DESIGN
Est. 1960
Architecture
Urban Planning

4. Urban Renewal
Urban Sprawl
Zoning
Garden City
New Pattern
New Urbanism

5. URBAN DESIGN
Est. 1960
Architecture
Urban Planning

6. " Urban Design has reached
a dead end...While the task
grows in urgency and com-
plexity, the disciplinary main-
streaming of urban design has
transformed it from potentially
broad and hopeful conceptual
category into aincreasingly rig-
id, restrictive, and boring set of
orthodoxies."
-- Michale Sorkin, <The Ends of Ur-
ban Design>, Urban Design

7. URBAN DESIGN UNDERSTANDING

8. URBAN DESIGN UNDERSTANDING

9. RUMOR II:
LANDSCAPE URBANISM
SAVES THE WORLD(?)

10. Charles Waldheim
LANDSCAPE
saves the world!

11. Charles Waldheim
LANDSCAPE
saves the world!

12. Mohsen MostafaviCharles Waldheim
LANDSCAPE
saves the world!
ECOLOGICAL
URBANISM
saves the world!

13. Mohsen MostafaviCharles Waldheim
LANDSCAPE
saves the world!
ECOLOGICAL
URBANISM
saves the world!

14. Mohsen Mostafavi Pierre BelangerCharles Waldheim
LANDSCAPE
saves the world!
ECOLOGICAL
URBANISM
saves the world!
INFRASTRUCTURE
saves the world!

15. Mohsen Mostafavi Pierre BelangerCharles Waldheim
LANDSCAPE
saves the world!
ECOLOGICAL
URBANISM
saves the world!
INFRASTRUCTURE
saves the world!
Landscape
As
Infrastructure

17. URBANISM

18. URBANISM

19. We don’t have to
save the world!
What if we simply declare that there
is no crisis-redefine our relationship
with the city not as its makers but as
its mere subjects, as its supporters?
More than ever, the city is all we
have.
What Ever Happened to Urbanism-S,M,L,XLRem Koolhaas

20. RUMOR III:
GENERIC CITY(?)

21. “Now we are left with a world without ur-
banism, only architecture, ever more ar-
chitecture. The neatness of architecture
is its seduction; it defines, excludes, lim-
its, seperates from the “rest”-but it also
consumes....”

22. Generic City is about SAMENESS
Cities with no history, no culture, no
Difference.

24. GENERIC

25. GENERIC = DIVERSITY

26. “Together, all these breaks -
with scales,with architectural
composition, with tradition, with
transparency, with ethics-imply
the final, most radical break:
Bigness is no longer part of any
urban tissue.
It exists; at most, it coexists.
Its subtext is FUCK context.”
Bigness, S,M,L,XL

27. RUMOR IV:
FUCK CONTEXT(?)

28. Tim Stonor and
SPACE SYNTAX

35. FUCK CONTEXT

36. FUCK CONTEXT

37. RUMOR V:
A PHYSIST SOLVES CITIES(?)

38. Geoffrey West
“ Give me the SIZE of
a city, any city in the
world. You name it!
I can tell you almost
EVERYTHING about
the city, even I’ve never
been there...”

44. URBANISM?

45. 'SCIENTIFIC' URBANISM (?)

46. ONE VISION
FOR DESIGN(ER)

54. " So when we talk about design today, and par-
ticularly when we read about it in the popular
press, we're often talking about products like
these. Amusing? Yes. Desirable? Maybe. Impor-
tant? Not so very. But this wasn't always the
way. And I'd like to suggest that if we take a
different view of design, and focus less on the
object and more on design thinking as an ap-
proach, that we actually might see the result
in a bigger impact. " ---Tim Brown, IDEO

55. INNOVATIVE THINKING

56. ARCHITECT?

57. "Maybe, architecture doesn't have to be stu-
pid after all. Liberated from the obligation
to construct, it can become a way of thinking
about anything - a discipline that represents
relationships, proportions, connections, effects,
the diagram of everything."
---Rem Koolhaas 2004, OMA

58. SYSTEMS THINKING

59. REAL INNOVATION
ARISES FROM
UNDERSTANDING
OF REALITY

64. ONE VISION:
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY,
TRUE IMPACT

65. 5 RUMORS
+ 1 VISION
of cities
for design