Utopia

The Article ‘Arcology’ is a try to find ideal city type in relationships between environments and human resources. For grasping an image of the arcological city, divided analysis and clarification of purpose are effective strategy for the nebulous image of utopia. It is because investigation of every connected factors related with city is necessary for building a logic of ideal city. However, when I meet arcological discourse which is focused as our utopia, I have a same impression. It is a sort of manifestation not an imagination or emerging. Big premise is that we should go that direction because we are here.

Through architectural history, efforts to visualize or architecturalize utopian city were truly challenging works. A sketch concerning future city has a philosophy toward utopia or would-be dystopia. Archigram’s works were amazing even on the view of contemporary position. Their paper works involve a little archeological view but more are focused on outlining the future in excavating the patterns of the past. (58, New Babylon versus Plug in-city) That’s reason we can feel their insight is quiet keen even in current base. The comment “If man is no longer bound to production-labour, he will also no longer be forced to stick to a fixed place.” is can be applied in mobility and ubiquity based on current technology. It’s one of evidences their ideas were actually future oriented. Main key that they could imagine some relatively reasonable ideas-with current base not at that time- was they faced era having plenty of changes within short scroll. They could concentrate the changing phenomenon itself.

I assume expecting future city and drawing it might be easy in 1950~60 than now. They were stepping an apparently changing stage as the physical environment. But, now we are standing on the changed changing cites in terms of physical settings but invisible human environment is changing more quickly than modern times. Then, how can be our future city imagined? What is the relatively strong process to keep an eye on contemporary world. And, what is the keen view and thoughtful insight anticipating our future. Archigram had acutely aware of supposed freedom form dogma. Then, are we too free from dogma? Or, our future cities totally are not free from economical dogma?