| LAGOS : REM KOOLHAAS |
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With an estimated population of 14 million
now, Lagos is one of the fastest growing
cities on the African continent. By 2020, it
is expected to be the third largest city in
the world, with 24 million people. After
decades of military rule, and in spite of
enormous oil revenue, Nigeria suffers from
mass poverty, dysfunctional public services
and broken down infrastructures.
Consequently, Lagos has a reputation for
being one of the most dangerous cities in the
world and many Africans prefer to avoid it.
Architect Rem Koolhaas, however, chose not
to. For the past four years, he, and a team
of students of The Harvard Project on the
City, have come to Lagos regularly to
research the type of urbanity that is
produced by uncontrolled, explosive
population growth. Fascinated by the energy
of Lagos, and driven by the desire to
understand modernity in all ist aspects,
Koolhaas set out to learn from Lagos, rather
than planning, building or changing anything.
Notwithstanding its notoriety, Lagos
continues to have enormous appeal for vast
numbers of people. Every hour, 21 new
inhabitants set out to start a life in the
city, a life that is highly unpredictable and
requires risk taking, networking and
improvisation as essential strategies for
survival. As talkshow host Funmi Iyanda puts
it on her fabulously popular breakfast show
The New Dawn: Lagos works for us. There is
some kind of function in the dysfunction. And
Rem Koolhaas saw that. It's like some elusive
perfume in the air. If you could capture it,
put it in a bottle and spray it, your life
would be different. There is an energy and a
resourcefulness and Lagos that, if we could
just learn how to manage it, would be a
showpiece for the entire world to see.'
The documentary Lagos/Koolhaas follows Rem
Koolhaas during his research in Lagos over a
period of two years. Using small digital
cameras, the film maker documented Koolhaas
documenting Lagos and tried to grasp and
convey a sense of the new urban life that is
being invented here. Noisy, unpredictable and
exploding in multiple screens and acitvities
at once, Lagos/Koolhaast delves into the
multi-layered fabric of the city and tries to
make sense of it.
Script and direction: Bregtje van der Haak
Photography: Alexander Oey
Sound:Rik Meier
Editor: J.P. Luysterburg
Producer: Sylvia Baan for Pieter van Huystee
Film
co-producer: VPRO Television
www.pvhfilm.nl
Tags : documentary architecture architects architekten nigeria pieter van huystee |
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Affichage : 18059
Durée : 198 s |
| Charlie Rose: March 25, 2002 |
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First, a conversation with Jim Hoagland of
"The Washington Post" and Nicholas Lemann of
"The New Yorker" about Bush's foreign policy
after 9/11and his plans for Iraq. Then, a
conversation with architect Rem Koolhaas
about his projects and co-authored books
"Project on the City" and "Harvard Design
School Guide to Shopping", which examine the
influence of shopping habits and
globalization on "non-cities" of the world.
Tags : charlie_rose entertainment charlie rose march |
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Affichage : 7482
Durée : 3444 s |
| Rem Koolhaas |
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VÃdeo da apresentãção de um trabalho
sobre Rem Koolhas e a Casa da Música em
Porto, Portugal. Trabalho aresentado Ã
professora MaÃra Teixeira da UEG, em
Anápolis-GO. Alunos do curso de Arquitetura
e Urbanismo. Turma 2/2006.
Tags : Rem Koolhas Arquitetura Porto Portugal Casa da Música. |
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Affichage : 715
Durée : 229 s |
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