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Metropolitan Dubai and the Rise of Architectural Fantasy

Metropolitan Dubai and the Rise of Architectural Fantasy
George Katodrytis

Fantasy embraces all forms of dreaming. In architecture, it implies a composed, projected environment that is surprising to the eye—a deliberate exercise that tests reality and triggers possibilities for the future. In a sense, all architecture is fantasy. Architectural design is always speculative, since it attempts to specify the future.

Recent progressive architectural projects have generated new forms and expressions in response to new global realities, cultural fascinations and technological advances. Like their predecessors, the new architectural fantasists move beyond the mundane to transfigure, distort and extend, and therefore bring new meanings to architecture.....

continue reading: Radical Urban Theory, http://www.rut.com/misc/dubai.html
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