Fantastic Architecture

Views, Vectors, and Visions

• Walking in a walking city
• Floating/mobile landscape
• Wearable dwellings
• Dynamically textured, colored, and shaped rooms
• Detachable connectivity and attachable disconnectivity
• Beyond country, village, citidels, metropolis, and megapolis
• Citadels of Capital: empty and barren
  
• Apartment as "being apart"
• Intentional community
• Locating beyond the stationary and the nomadic
  
• Communalization of poverty, separate Power, proletarianization
• Superseding decentralism and centralism: Omnicentralism

Psychogeography

"Psychogeography is a method of critique urbanism or at least the uses of the city. however it was tied directly with the situationists (and pre-situ lettrist internationals) 'study of the specific effects of geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals' in and through their drifts through cities." - anthony on aut-op-sy forum, 2002

Unitary Urbanism

"Unitary urbanism isn't a just form of psychogeoraphy as such, rather it is a critique of capitalist urbanism, and is speculative in regards to how an urban milieu could be constructed." - anthony on aut-op-sy forum, 2002

• Basic Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism (Site#1, Site#2, Site#3) - by Attila KotÁnyi, Raoul Vaneigem (1961)
• History of Unitary Urbanism and Psychogeography at the Turn of the Sixties - by Ewen Chardronnet
• Unitary Urbanism - from Internationale Situationiste #3 (Decemeber 1959)
• Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography - by Guy Debord
• Unitary Urbanism at the End of the 1950's - - from Internationale Situationiste #3 (Decemeber 1959)
• Critique of Urbanism - from International Situationniste #6 (August 1961)
• Formulary for a New Urbanism - by Ivan Chtcheglov (1953)

Constant Niewenhuys

• Constant: New Babylon : art et utopie : textes situationnistes ([Cercle d'art contemporain]) - by Constant
• The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situationist Architectures from Constant's New Babylon to Beyond - by Catherine deZegher (Editor), et al
• Constant's New Babylon - by Mark Wigley
• The Amsterdam Declaration - by Constant
  
• The Situationist City - by Simon Sadler
• Constant: New Babylon, Una Citta Nomade - by Francesco Careri
• Inaugural Report to the Munich Conference - by Constant
  

Charles Jencks

• Book Distribution and Reviews

• Charles Jencks and the New Paradigm in Architecture - by Nikos A. Salingaros (for KATARXIS III)

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet

• Gaudi Central
• home page de Antoni Gaudi
  

Archizoom (Florentine, Italy;1966-)

• Andrea Branzi
• Gilberto Corretti
• Paolo Deganello
• Dario Bartolini
• Lucia Bartolini
• Massimo Morozzi
  

Archigram (1961-1974)

• Archigram
• Ron Herron
• David Greene
• Peter Cook
  

Superstudio (Florentine, Italy;1966-1978)

• Biography
• Anti-Design projects
• The Continuous Monument project
  
• Adolfo Natalini (co-founder)
• Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (co-founder)
• Alessandro Magris
• Roberto Magris
• Gian Piero Frassinelli 
  

Domes

Monolithic™ Domes (reinforced concrete domes) are extremely energy efficient, built using natures' patterns, extraordinarily strong, earthquake resistant, hurricane and tornado resistant, fire resistant, termite proof, and environmentally friendly (less trees destroyed).

Benefits

• Monolithic Domes have real strength. They can withstand the force of a tornado, hurricane or earthquake. They cannot burn, rot or be eaten by bugs.
• The Monolithic Dome is energy efficient. It will usually save fifty percent on heating and cooling costs compared to a comparable conventional building.
• Maintenance cost is lower on Monolithic Domes.

• Monolithic Dome Institute
• Dome Contractors, Inc.
• Domebuilders

Earthquake-Proof, Flood-Proof

• John Kay Organic Homes
• Tsui Design & Research, Inc.

Financing with Shared Equity and Loans

• FHA Loan
• Addie Mac (Fannie Mae, FHA/VA, first-time buyer)
  

Intentional Communities

• Intentional Communities
• Intentional Communities Store
• Speculative Fiction and Future Politics
• Anarchist Communitarian Network

Co-Housing

• Cohousing Network
  
• The CoHousing Company
• Cohousing Resources
• Cohousing Links

High-Tech

• Design

Environmentally Sound

• Ecologically Designed
• Green-Built Certified
• Institute for Appropriate Technology

Organizations

• HeadMap

Materials

• ThermaSAVE (heat/cold/eartquake resistance)

• Advantages of the ThermaSAVE Building System
• ThermaSAVE
• Random Homes built using ThermaSAVE Building Systems
• US Therma Build
  

Miscellaneous

• Rashid
• Venturi
• The Newest School Buildings are Indistinguishable from the Newest Prisons or the Newest Industrial Complexes - by Robert Chasse and Bruce Elwell
• The Hacienda Must be Destroyed or, Why was Debord Afraid of Ruins? - by Phil Edwards
• Situationists and Architecture - by Peter Wollen (New Left Review 8, Mar-April 2001)
  

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