POINTILLISM-LIKE LANDSCAPE OF THE CONTEMPORARY METROPOLISES

Ada Kwiatkowska

Abstract  

Contemporary metropolises are the material and virtual plain emitting bits of information. The landscape of the urban agglomeration is a pointillism like picture The patterns of the contemporary city structure, based on islands’ phenomenon (pointillism-like style), are analyzed in the aspects of the gigantic centers as the scenery of the mass spectacles (New Year welcome, rock concerts, street parades etc.), the green islands and oasis (recreation), peripheries as the local islands of beauty surrounded by the liquid urban landscape - included or excluded from the city structure (condominium, ghettos, industrial areas, cemeteries etc.), virtual islands of beauty (collage, image, virtual pictures), transport channels as the spatial potential of the future development of metropolises (membranes, channels, bridges, stations).  

Article:

Kwiatkowska, Ada, Pointylistyczny krajobraz wspolczesnych metropolii, Architectus, 2002, no 2, pp.89-96. (drawings by Ada Kwiatkowska)

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