Some of the most important buildings of our clip live only on paper — and we ’re go away to retrace them , over and over , in our imaging . But that does n’t mean we ca n’t feel these lost structure through other means .
To honour El Lissitzky — the famously unbuilt German architect who inspired a generation of avant - garde designers in the 1920s — an architect namedGuillaume Mazarshas declare oneself a unproblematic root . First , build up a framework of scaffolding . Then , manipulate the structure with programmable LEDs . at last , use these lights to , in gist , produce a behemoth , 3 - dimensional TV set in the sky — upon which Mazars would recreate El Lissitzky ’s eternally unrealized “ horizontal skyscrapers , ” also known as Wolkenbügel , or “ swarm - irons : ”
“ By subtracting , in the personal manner of mould , we will reconstruct the spacial presence of the El Lissitzky projection without physically retrace [ the building]v itself , ” Mazars explains .
As you might expect , his thought , too , is only a concept .
But the idea of recreate recede architecture is n’t as crazy as it seems . Sure , maybe it ’s through anOculus Riftrather than a monolithic scaffolding superstructure — but imagine being capable to take the air throughCiudad Blanca , the legendary lost urban center just discover in the rainforest , or the White City of Chicago ’s 1893 World ’s Fair . Or the original Penn Station .
How Lasers May Have bring out a Legendary Lost City of amber
Or , yes , El Lissitzky ’s incredible , long - lose , horizontal skyscrapers . [ Archinect ]
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