tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439806299733648924.post8297606695492057374..comments2022-04-08T17:52:27.689+01:00Comments on cosmopolis: Is terrain vague a vague concept? Reflections from Brusselsmatthew gandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365182181250999529noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439806299733648924.post-65461002547128300512011-06-17T09:21:10.006+01:002011-06-17T09:21:10.006+01:00Yeah they are nice photos.
Although Sola-Morales ...Yeah they are nice photos.<br /><br />Although Sola-Morales paper 'terrain vague' is rooted in urban photography and its historical development, he carries this interest, in photography of uncertain landscape conditions, into the realm of architecture and the proposition of a physical intervention - beyond taking a photo - by saying that 'In this situation the role of the architect is inevitably problematic'. However I view this as a challenge for architecture/landscape architecture/urban design rather than a negation of such disciplines. On this line of thinking Sola-Morales does offer a suggestion for how this situation could be negotiated in the last sentence, he says as architects 'we should treat the city with a contradictory complicity that will not shatter the elements that maintain its continuity in time and space.' <br /><br />Any thoughts on what he might be referring to with contradictory complicity?Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11359129766448831518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439806299733648924.post-56242230875264658662011-05-28T13:47:33.041+01:002011-05-28T13:47:33.041+01:00And overwhelmingly human vision...vivid terrain no...And overwhelmingly human vision...vivid terrain not vague ;-) i.e. filled with vida, life. these spaces are coproductions with nonhuman agents [not mere subjects as urban political ecology usually treats nonhumans] and fascinating places [not mere urban space...once the nonhumans occupy them]. Great photos, Matthew.kevin m andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18353103262999040262noreply@blogger.com