The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture

The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture: City, Technology and Society in the Information Age

Bridge(s)
A Bridge is a factory or device - usually a platform - used to connect two separate territories // To build a bridge: to create a physical or virtual relationship. Of articulation or complicity. To effect a link. To Link.

Infrastructures (as networks)
Communication and transport infrastructures (motorways, railways, air lanes) emerges as te most evident lines of the current "urban territorial" system. Lines are converted into neutral directrices for future organization of the land. Bases of reference, independent of construction are marked by velocity and sequenciality (and no longer by continuity and contemplation) as supports for new activities, not only along their lengths but even over the latter as well: over formerly hierarchially and monofunctionally seperated plots of land that have begun to absorb, progressively complex and stratified programmes, defined through complicated superimposition of vertical and horizontal sectional use of structures.

Landstrategy
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Limit
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Plateaux (for platform)
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Platforms
As an attempt to summarize the qualities of the new grounds it is interesting to point out their fundamentally active, operative nature; these emerging grounds are closer to the contemporary meaning of 'platforms' as operating systems neutralize and erase the field of operation to produce an ideal background for architecture to become a readable figure.

Tableland
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