New Instrumentalities

No-Stop Shopping City: Supermarkets, Hybrid Space, and the Logistics of the Quotidian

International Proceedings

Author(s): Nerea Feliz

Archizoom Associati’s 1970s dystopian “No-stop City” manifesto affirmed: “Architecture no longer represents the system, it is the system…Production and consumption poses one and the same ideology, which is that of programming.”1 No-stop City portrayed the future of the capitalist metropolis as an endless supermarket slash factory interior space where production and consumption coalesced into a singular and infinite isotropic field. With the digitalization of consumption, Archizoom’s dystopic overlap of production and consumption is already a reality. How is endless space framed and created by the digitizing economic realities of the 21st century? We are beginning to see a transition in which retailers are attempting to merge the experience of online and offline shopping, creating a new hybrid marketplace. How is this transition taking place?

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Intl.2018.14

Volume Editors
Ángela García de Paredes, Iñaqui Carnicero & Julio Salcedo-Fernandez

ISBN
978-1-944214-18-0