Flexible City: Architecture as Framework

In the context of large-scale, contemporary urban development driven byexternal contingencies, this paper posits a new critical architecture at thisscale—one that establishes autonomy, while also remaining culturally relevantat any given moment in time. This is possible first, by achieving flexibilityand second, by defining the architectural object as a physical framework.This framework operates in a variety of ways and at multiple scales to blurcontingent qualities, while delineating possibilities.

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Julie Larsen & Roger Hubeli