Overurbanism
The Generic Sublime 02
Harvard University
Cambridge, United States, 2011
Professor: Ciro Najle
Assistant: Kaz Yoneda
Students: Steven Chen, Dongjae Cho,
Fred Chung, Lucas Correa, Day Jiménez, Mireilles Kameni, Mariusz Klemens,
Ostap Rudakevych, Elena Tudela, Zaou Wu, Mo Zhou, Danxi Zou
Skyscraper collectives, tower agglomerations, bundles, clusters, and twins; waterfront developments, mixed-use developments, high-rise housing developments, housing marinas and luxury condominiums; airport hubs, corporate office enclaves, industrial parks, hotel complexes, conference, commercial, and financial centres; satellite cities, theme parks, thematic cities, branded cities, new central districts, gated communities: what is the potential latent in extraordinarily large urban typologies, currently restricted by the typological tradition of urbanism and the segregation of architectural domains?
Overurbanism is the second paradoxical corpse of urbanism that comes after the skyscraper: the newly empowered form that results of assembling anti-urbanisms, proliferating the skyscraper, and turning over its logic through excess. Overurbanism explores the becoming that extraordinarily large forms of development entail to its predecessor in its second take-over of the globe.
