The Limits of Control: Approaching Tange Kenzo Through Vienna and Vice Versa

Beschreibung

This experimental paper takes up the idea of "parallax view" (the reading of authors/ideas through a different lens), which comes from Kojin Karatani's Transcritique (2003), as method to approach Kenzo Tange (1913-2005) and his urban ideas through Vienna and its architects Carl Pruscha (*1936) and Johann Staber (1928-2005) and vice versa. The aim of this endeavors is to rethink the limits of control, that are envisioned and experienced in the futuristic ideas of urban structures and buildings, based on two sets of case studies.

First, viewed through two art exhibitions regarding Tange's Plan for Skopje displayed in Vienna, namely "No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection" (at Kunsthalle Wien) and "A Revisionist Model of Solidarity" (at Secession) the contemporary Vieannese contextualization and interpretation of Tange's Reconstruction Plan for Skopje (1965) is analyzed. Second, based on the works "Global Linear City" (1963) by Carl Pruscha and "Vienna International Centre (UNO-City, Vienna)" by Johann Staber (planned 1968, built 1972-1979), the Kenzo Tange's 1960 Master Plan for Tokyo is revisited as an inspiration for coeval architects in Europe as well as an instance of the global landscape of urban ideas in the postwar era. By doing so, this paper tries to provide a close reading from a distant place of Kenzo Tange's urban master plans from the 1960s with a critical emphasis on the limits of control imposed by real life to these overarching plans.

Zeitraum	5 Sept. 2024
Ereignistitel	16th Conference of the European Association for Urban History (EAUH 2024): Cities at the Boundaries
Veranstaltungstyp	Konferenz
Konferenznummer	16
Ort	Ostrava, Tschechische RepublikAuf Karte anzeigen
Bekanntheitsgrad	International