New Natures: Ábalos+Sentkiewicz’s Intermodal Station in Logroño

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Allen, Stan [author.]

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Computer filePublication details: urbanNext, November 11, 2020.Description: 1455 wordsISSN:

2575-5374

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Summary: The field of freedom shrinks with speed. And freedom needs a field. When there is no more field, our lives will be like a terminal, a machine with doors that open and close. Paul Virilio [1] “Construction,” Walter Benjamin has written, “fulfills the role of the unconscious.” He was writing in the 1930s, describing the development of cast-iron construction in the early decades of the nineteenth century. In those years, cast-iron, coupled with glass, made possible the Parisian arcades and with them a transformative new space of social encounter was created. But, as Benjamin accurately observes, the integration of these new building technologies was not seamless.

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Essay, Essays on Thermodynamics. Architecture and Beauty, No Density, Stan Allen, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Architecture, Architecture&nature, City, Construction, Essay, Geometry, Green roof, History, Horizontal experience, Infrastructure, Landscape, Landscape Architecture, Mass Transportation, Public Space, Railway infrastructure, Steel, Technology, Territory&Mobility, Topography, Transportation Systems, urban

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Ábalos + Sentkiewicz ( ENG ED. ), 2015 -- https://actar.com/product/abalos-sentkiewicz/

The field of freedom shrinks with speed. And freedom needs a field. When there is no more field, our lives will be like a terminal, a machine with doors that open and close.

Paul Virilio [1]

“Construction,” Walter Benjamin has written, “fulfills the role of the unconscious.” He was writing in the 1930s, describing the development of cast-iron construction in the early decades of the nineteenth century. In those years, cast-iron, coupled with glass, made possible the Parisian arcades and with them a transformative new space of social encounter was created. But, as Benjamin accurately observes, the integration of these new building technologies was not seamless.

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