2 Venice II
Although being considered the queen of the cities, Venice, La Serenissima, is dying.
3 Venice III
Constraints, sources, blueprints and opportunities for the design of new uses in Venice.
4 Browsing
Browsing as the lite-version of analysis has to handle large amounts of data on the one side and has to be open for surprise or cross-reference on the other side.
5 Blueprint
The architect's task is to develop a sense for the not-yet-real, the virtual force, already blueprinted in peoples' minds and in built structures, and to translate it into "virtual design".
6 Construction
Browsing, Blueprint, and all efforts have the goal to be able to construct solutions versus to collage them and versus to just generate free association.
7 Bigness
"Bigness" is shear dimension but hint to forms of reassembly of fragmented urbanism.
8 Lille
Is Koolhaas's Euralille an embodiment of contemporary browsing, blueprint, construction?