TROPOLISM

It's been a while since a project emerged that is at once a beautiful proposal and an act of political critique. The proposal for a suspended funeral structure for Baghdad by Nannette Jackowski and Ricardo O. C. de Ostos (warning: flash heavy website) combines the two qualities with an elegance not seen since Archigram. And, like Archigram, we are left wondering if this is a rhetorical proposal, or a visionary understanding of our current cultural conditions. This project will appear in the next issue of Pamphlet Architecture.

Pruned points the way to this proposal with some wonderful observations about how some aspects of it it already exists.