18:00 – 19:30 11 February 2014<\/p>\n
Location:\u00a0Architectural Association, Rear Presentation Space, 36 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3ES<\/p>\n
If we happen to land in one of the major European airports at night, the perception we have is that of a large constellation of lights that rotates beneath us. It is the representation of a quite specific city and territory;\u00a0it is the representation of a city made of many solitary\u00a0buildings. The\u00a0lights we see while landing at Malpensa airport, not so different from those we see landing in Paris, Berlin or Frankfurt, are the representation of a space that was built over the last 30 years according to a very different\u00a0logic to that of the \u2018traditional\u00a0city\u2019.<\/p>\n
What we see is a city made of a multitude of buildings. It is as if these new cities that have covered and swept across the hills, plains, coasts of most European territory, have lost their syntax. Today it is difficult to understand what links a building to a housing block to a car wash to a mall and so on.<\/p>\n