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The Open City

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April 2019

From wireframe to reality The neoliberal city Open planning systems Porosity

- Winy Maas, Rory Stott

The Open City

On 18 December 2018, Winy Maas met Richard Sennett for a semi-formal discussion at WORM, a vegetarian bar and event space in Rotterdam, ahead of the launch of the Dutch version of the American sociologist’s latest book Building and Dwelling

WM: This food is delicious and it proves that we don’t need meat. It has become so popular these days! That, in my view, shows the political awareness of the younger generation..

RS: They don’t eat meat, eh?

WM: No meat and buses instead of planes. I appreciate those kinds of radicality. Maybe that explains the new momentum for architecture — that is if architecture still exists in the future — and for urbanism in general. Thinking about the city is encouraged now.

RS: I would say it’s much more tactile. Do you think some of this is a reaction to working with CAD? That CAD is so puritanical there’s a desire to recover the physicality of the city. I hate designing with CAD, I’ve done it.

WM: But is that a personal thing? Because I can also explain it or defend it even more strongly as, for my generation or the one just afterwards, it’s almost their language.

RS: It is. But I’m saying it’s a language in which what you gain in efficiency you lose in reality.

WM: So are we on opposite sides in that sense? I want to see your point but on the other hand I love wireframes… The wireframes of buildings where you can see every piece or detail on one three-dimensional drawing. It’s almost like being at the centre of the data that drives that building. The idea is to work with that; we need a tool like a pencil to master the wireframe, manipulating the wireframe is, I think, a potential debate.

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