New Cities/New Soviets

April 02, 2004

totality city


a guest post by pinky... 
totality city is all based on a simple
cell system of interchangable space frame units
   whole 20 million capacity city
based on a single standard module
   that all occuped spaces are  built out of

not stopping at brick units like old systems
this is built out of
actual room units
  units that can travel
be an  elevator cabin
   or  passenger area on a tram
  office bed room all larger units just 
         agglomerations of modules
      whole city made of completely 
         interchangable parts
any unit can go anywhere
move anywhere
  no hierarchy
no rigid results fore gone options 
       not ever fore gone

      vision of
  " the  lost wizzard of odessa"
victor stoopenko
   designer of the better known 
cossack series of
     truck-trailer living units for
temporary  job  site  dwellings

  yes come meet the fabulous prof stoopenko

      visionary civil engineer of the 1920's
       party stalwarts bete noir
  for impish subversions
of practical building plans

constructivism inspired
    but working in near isolation
  among " philistine cheese graters "
    some how
      stoopenkowas able to
produce his brake thru conceptions
         in the field  today know as
         hypercity integrationism
  he was
temporarily   lost to history
    whenuncle joe saw to it
   that he and his wartk got
memory holed
               after his
     gulagment in 1936
for"excessive  ukrainian nationalism"
Posted by Sam at April 2, 2004 04:11 AM

this pink guy needs some help spelling

by the way
this Stoopenko
was released from a gulag technical facility
in the early 50's

the "memory holing"
was actually the result of his feud with
the academy of archetecture's
big shots

after his release during " the thaw "
stoopenko started in AGAIN on the "steel heads"
blaiming them for blocking the development of his injection mold
plastic frame system

for a time in the early sixties
he was known
in ukrainian art circles
as the
"Lysenko of the plastic arts "

the man seems to have
thrived on controversy
all his life

he died in 1973
ironically at the time
he was living
in the TWO ROOM apartment
of his last girl friend
the apartment
happened to be in
a steel and glass
high rise building
designed by his arch enemy
igor Doblinka

this is his
last written note
dated june 24 1973
3 days before his death

" 67 next month
and still
all plans unbuilt
and
designs unknown "

Posted by: meat me at April 2, 2004 10:27 AM

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