Competitions

In May 2012 we submitted our entry for The !!!!!!!!! Competition hosted by Reality Cues. The project involved the manipulation of given photographs to re-present the subject matter in light of the author's artistic styles and theory. Working from the image of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Saint-Jacques Tower in Paris our interpretation of this photograph led us to question the role of the modern metropolis among the historic monuments of the past. Beginning the writings of Koolhaas we devised a collage of the new and old, guided by the Dadaist principles of Kurt Schwitters and the dystopian visions of the future played out in classic films such as Ridley Scott's "Bladerunner" and Fritz Lang's "Metropolis". The resulting composition, using the discordant colours of Frank Stella, brings together the modern notions of climate change within the architectural community and the concerns with density in the rapidly growing world cities.

To see our intervention, please click on the photograph to the right which shows the image prior to our proposal.