Chapter 11: Biological cultivation.
Autor: | Gruffudd, Pyrs, Philo, Chris, Wilbert, Chris |
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Zdroj: | Animal Spaces, Beastly Places; 2000, p223-241, 19p |
Abstrakt: | This chapter considers the structures built at London Zoo in England, alongside Tecton's other contemporary projects, not as attempts to dominate or to transcend nature but as experiments in harmonising living creatures and their designed spaces through the medium of scientifically informed modernism. While the creatures in London Zoo were obviously non-human, they were nonetheless considered as indicators of humanity's fate and the Zoo enclosures were widely read as symbolising deficiencies and new hopes for a humane, and human, urban planning. In London Zoo in the 1930s that sense of distance was arguably diluted somewhat and animals came to be seen as occupying a pivotal relationship between humanity and nature. To the mind of reformers and applied scientists, they were organisms to be understood, nurtured and housed efficiently, as indeed, were humans. This theoretical interest in the nurturing of living organisms, in the form of animals, would eventually find expression in the work of the Russian emigré architect Berthold Lubetkin. Lubetkin and Tecton's buildings were also significant in that they affirmed the importance of architecture and planning in the nurturing process. They were biological cultivation in essential form, stripping away layers of culture and treat the animal organism as a series of characteristics and desires. |
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