> 'Broadacre City' (1932-1958) by Frank Lloyd Wright was the antithesis of the city. It's 'organic' and decentralised organisation meant that it formed a continious sprawling landscape rather than the monumental, highly densified, rationally distributed 'Ville Contemporaine' (Le Corbusier).
> Yet a grid of any sort flies into the face of that idea. A grid in plan reminds us of a city because the idea of a modern city is a city built using a grid.
> Grids mean things are easily and equally devidable, buildable, leasable, stackable, shiftable, multiplyable and so on.
> A grid suggests repetition, a pattern. The city grid is something that is mirrored in less dense areas as well. Sprawling suburbs which follow the same typology establish a pattern, creating a grid.
> Patterns are found in nature yet from what I've seen they rarely take the shape of a grid.
> Grids also suggest division rather then inclusion. Grids are used to divide and sort things into their different types, uses, forms, colours or flavours.
> Grids are evil...
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hello sir
your ramblings are interesting
more to the point, your picture? is that your work or is that from somewhere? and if so where? just coz they look cool
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