Archinect recently featured an interesting interview with George Brugmans, the Director of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.
Part of the discussion focuses on a topic that we feel quite strongly about here at Globizen: that urban centres are the true engines of creativity and productivity and that we need a true urban agenda.
“For us architecture is about the city. I hold, maybe somewhat provocatively, that in the 21st century cities will become more important than nation states. And I’m personally convinced that the nation state as we know it, will not make it into the 22nd century.”
While it may seem provocative, cities already supersede nations in many respects; we just simply haven’t updated our federal structures to reflect this shift.
Click here to read the interview.
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