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“In Praise of Cities: Development Without Urbanisation?”
28 August 2013
Speaker: Professor Nasrine Seraji
Venue: PAM Centre, Kuala Lumpur

Synopsis:

Rem Koolhaas is moving to the countryside. The heroic defendant of the Metropolis, a paragon of Modernism, is perhaps warning us that there is no longer a challenge for architects in the city. Yet cities are popping up like mushrooms all over the planet, cities that accommodate nothing, cities that are left to rot, cities that are only the hope of those who commission them and not the ones that are to live in them.

The new fast economies of the Gulf region, South East Asia, India, China, and Africa are presenting us with the challenge of the century; how to develop land without urbanisation? What new models of cities can we invent to replace the shopping mall model invented in the 50’s? What future is there for Garden cities that rely on the importation of energy? Are utopias still a valid form of debate concerning societies and communities?

The lecture will extract through the debates of the last sixty years the questions that we architects need to urgently address.

Can we change the way we think, read, explore and design large pieces of territories?

Contact: PAM Secretariat +603-26934182 / cpd@pam.org.my
2 LAM CPD points have been applied
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