{"id":2482,"date":"2013-10-15T19:10:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T19:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2013-10-15T19:10:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T19:10:34","slug":"how-to-see-through-the-cloud-booktwo-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/15\/how-to-see-through-the-cloud-booktwo-org\/","title":{"rendered":"How to see through the Cloud | booktwo.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[James Bridle being all super-smart and stuff. -egg]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/booktwo.org\/notebook\/how-to-see-through-the-cloud\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/continuous-monument-ge.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I first encountered Superstudio at the Arkitekturmuseet in Stockholm a few years ago, in a recreation of the seminal \u201cNew Domestic Architecture\u201d show held at MoMA in 1972. Superstudio were a radical architectural practice who operated in Italy in the late 60s and 70s, proposing a series of vast, impossible conceptual interventions \u2013 a rejection of architecture\u2019s decorative concerns in favour of a total architecture, a \u201ctotal urbanization\u201d, best characterised by the extensive sketches and models for the \u201cContinuous Monument\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning in 1969, the Continuous Monument proposed a gridded structure which would eventually come to encompass the entire earth, a seamless surface laid over everything, a place of nomadism and possibility and an eversion of the domestic into the public. Long heralded as forerunners of architects-of-scale such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid, they have also always seemed to me to be prefiguring the network: a world-scale communication system on and within which we all dwell now. The photocollages, which I have been somewhat obsessively reproducing in Google Earth, also seem to point towards a land art for the internet, of which I have written previously.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/booktwo.org\/notebook\/how-to-see-through-the-cloud\/\">How to see through the Cloud | booktwo.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[James Bridle being all super-smart and stuff. -egg] I first encountered Superstudio at the Arkitekturmuseet in Stockholm a few years ago, in a recreation of the seminal \u201cNew Domestic Architecture\u201d show held at MoMA in 1972. Superstudio were a radical architectural practice who operated in Italy in the late 60s and 70s, proposing a series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-E2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}