GEORGE KATODRYTIS / STUDIONOVA ARCHITECTS :: Texts on the CITY

George moderated and presented at the Architecture + Tourism Conference, IAU Dubai Campus, 2 March 2007 (more...)

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Instant City: The Rise of Dubai. First in a series of dialogues which addresses the relations between architecture, power, and political dissent. Debate between Kees Christiaanse and George Katodrytis. Moderated by Roemer van Toorn. (more...)

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The city is full of small bits of energy and light sources that make up a global illumination system. By utilizing the local matrix, it is possible to re-invent urban lighting. (more...)

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George gave a lecture, The Dubai Experiment: a Constructed Fantasy, at the California College of the Arts , San Francisco, part of the CCA Lecture Series, on January 22, 2007. (more...)

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The oblique view of extruded spikes, lays out a city as elaborate as that of a Persian carpet. It’s how an X-ray looks, crystal clear and transparent. It is how we imagine the military sees the monochromatic world when surveilling it at night. It is as if the digital board of the processor has been blown out of proportion, the higher you go the more prestige you gain, obstructing each other’s view. Yet gazing out of the window of the 150th floor remains the most intense and solitude act so far that this century of buildings has offered. (more...)

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Tall buildings will use “smart skins” that will respond to changes, environmental and emotional. Smarter programmable elevators will distribute traffic more efficiently vertically and travellators will do the same horizontally, between the lobbies of clustered skyscrapers. (more...)

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Skyscrapers are always contemporary. To recognize them is to accept the metropolitan condition as a dialectical element and at the same time to embrace the most advanced global capital – that of consumerism expressed as “gigantic machines” and a “cathedrals of commerce”. (more...)

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George is the new Guest Editor of 2A Magazine. The Dubai based 2A magazine would like to invite submissions for its next issue on Architecture + Tourism. The magazine content is focused, but not restricted, to the architecture of the Gulf. (more...)

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