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Waltropolis: City in a Box
Author(s) -
Andersen Emily,
DeOld Geoff,
Hoelker Corey
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.218
Subject(s) - urbanism , phenomenon , space (punctuation) , sociology , art history , history , aesthetics , art , archaeology , epistemology , philosophy , architecture , linguistics
Reyner Banham now seems premature in declaring the megastructure dead in the early 1970s. Here, theboxtank (Emily Andersen, Geoff DeOld and Corey Hoelker), a collaborative blog about big‐box urbanism and retail, considers the latent architectural possibilities of the now global phenomenon of space enclosing industrially clad megasheds ‐ the potential of which was never underestimated by Cedric Price or Martin Pawley.
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