Blank cities
by Viola Hertelova
portfolio special mention call 'Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023', 2023
Category: Representations of Space, Architecture, and Conflicts
This visual essay reflects on the analogy of the demise of man's relationship with the physical built environment and the breakdown of society. It indicates their possible connection. „The Generic City is fractal, an endless repetition of the same simple structural module; it is possible to reconstruct it from its smallest entity, a desktop computer, maybe even a diskette.“ — Rem Koolhaas Human attachment to space has always been an important mission of the society. From antiquity to the recent past, cities have been the scene of man, and analogously, its public space has reflected public opinion. However, under the weight of the globalized present, due to virtual saturation, our relationship with the environment is irretrievably disappearing today. Valid symbols and traditions become meaningless, old ones are replaced by new ones, and only fragments — scraps of human values — remain.
also from Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023