Quantum City

Chapter and Sample Content

Quantum City Introduction

Some mornings I wake up with my head full of rhythms, and rhythms of rhythms, and rhythms of rhythms of rhythms. And to have to speak English is like having to put on a straitjacket.
(Leroy Little Bear ‘Sa’ke’j’ Henderson)

Paper

Sifting Through the Chaos / A (Brief) Manual for Navigating the Streets of Beirut

For many travellers visiting a new city, the first impression is everything… yet most interesting cities hide their true character behind a facade of images and sounds that overwhelm the visitor’s senses by their sheer newness. This generally makes for a very shallow form of tourism that, although often interesting enough by itself, gives a [...]

Paper| quantum

Therapeutic Urbanism?

“Hornstrumpet! We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.” – Père Ubu (Alfred Jarry)

Lecture and Workshop

Quantum Design Workshop 2008

Hyperbody / Non-Standard and Interactive Architecture (PDF) Hyperbody, as a cutting edge ICT driven research and design department, has over the years developed intricate academia and praxis based connections with some of the world’s leading professionals, institutes as well as industrial practices. Some of our prominent connections include Marcos Novak (University of California, Santa Barbara,USA), [...]

Provocation

“Architecture in the New Paradigm”: a Response to Charles Jencks’ “The New Paradigm in Architecture”

The problem with Charles Jencks is that he is too old to recognize the new paradigm as anything more than a new opportunity to recount the buildings of his personal favourite architects. The paradigm shift he is looking for in the grammar of a handful of landmark buildings will forever elude him: the new paradigm [...]

Paper

The 70-Year-Itch or the Dawn of the Quantum City

The Ancient Egyptians built gigantic tombs to bury one man at great human and economic expense, the Greeks deployed immense effort to design temples of perfect proportions yet of no real function, the Romans imposed military grids on far colonies throughout their Empire… the early catholic church separated the City of God from the City [...]

Lecture

Architecture and the Quantum Worldview

Talk and Workshop

Quantum Worldview Workshop 2008

A 2-day workshop lead by Danah Zohar (The Quantum Self, Quantum Society, … ) and Ayssar Arida.

Lecture and Workshop

MonoPolyPolis: Banknotes and Beirut

My Rights to My City international symposium & workshop (keynote speaker), Alexandria, Egypt, Oct 2000. “MonoPolyPolis: Banknotes and Beirut”, English version.  

Competition and Provocation| beirut, Competition, event urbanism, martyrsfestival, memory, metaphor, postwar, and quantum urbanism

Sum over histories or the Garden of Forking Paths

The following project was part of a submitted proposal for an international urban design ideas competition for the development of Beirut’s Martyrs Square, launched in summer 2004 by Solidere, the real-estate company in charge of the reconstruction and development of the Beirut City Centre (BCD).

Talk

OPEN TALKS: City & Architecture

OPEN TALKS: City & Architecture Ayssar Arida and Pedro Gadanho, hosted by John Thackara.   In keeping with a tradition of fostering critical debate and encouraging active participation and awareness-raising, EXD05 introduces the Open Talks during the Opening Week. In an informal setup, national and international experts and media professionals will be joined by the [...]

Talk

Urban Design and Quantum Technology

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Lecture and Workshop

Quantum Urbanism Workshop 2010

A 2-day Quantum Urbanism workshop by Ayssar Arida, with the art and architecture students of the Art and Common Space course lead by Maaretta Jaukkuri, Anne-Karin Furunes, and Simon Harvey. Kunst og Fellesskapets Rom (Art and Common Space) brings together art and architecture students in an experimental forum aimed at rethinking issues of public space [...]