Water Economies by Lateral Office
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What can a stadium be used for once it no longer is a venue to watch sports or other forms of entertainment? Can it serve as a community center for the future providing a central gathering space to buy, sell, and socialize? Can ti serve as a community garden?
The largely conservative news outlets during the 1932 Olympics in Las Angeles tended to have bias against women as serious athletes. Their role as wives and mothers rather then athletes were more significant. News of women’s scores, times, and wins were less distributed then the men’s. When talking about the athletes, women’s names were preceded […]
Our current research involves us mapping every venue from every Summer Olympic Games. From there we can layer information such as infrastructure and population density to understand the various factors which drive the location of different venues. We are also looking at establishing a catalog of venue layouts. For instance, Helsinki in 1952 shows […]
Leading up to Sydney’s Olympic bid in 1993, they were faced with a difficult decision. What should they do with the potential Olympic park site? They needed to address the toxic waste that was there from cement and brick making factories over the decades, but they didn’t want to invest too much money if they […]
Daniel Piker has a few interesting experiments in Grasshopper that deal with self-organization of geometries and forms. One in particular is his sketch of surface tension. Link to his blog post
Megastructure Reloaded “Archigram’s Plug-in City, Constant Nieuwenhuys’ New Babylon and Yona Friedman’s La Ville spatiale rank among the incunabula of the 1960s. Combining visionary architecture, pop culture, art, and situationist rebellion, they became known far beyond the narrow confines of urban planning. Till now, however, there has been no exhibition dealing explicitly with megastructuralists’ vision. […]
The decision to host the 1972 Olympics gave Munich the opportunity to redevelop the Oberwiesenfeld area. It had been used as an airfield up until 1939 when the Munich- Riem airport opened. The area became largely idle despite the Nazi plans to have the area serve as the central slaughterhouse and marketplace. The goal was […]
I am still developing this diagram. If you have any comments or information pertinent to this I’d love to hear it. The International Journal of the History of Sport “A Brief Historical Review of Olympic Urbanization” by Hanwen Liao and Adrian Pitts – Excerpt – – Planning in Olympic Host Cities: Successful Olympic Urbanization […]
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