THE GENERIC SUBLIME

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THE GENERIC SUBLIME

The Generic Sublime recognizes the normative consistency across prevailing developmental forms in the age of globalization and explores how a contemporary notion of the sublime emerges out of the generic.
By abstracting the organizational protocols of skyscraper collectives, high-rise housing agglomerations, mixed-use conglomerates, new central districts, outstretched suburban enclaves, and instantaneous satellite cities, architect and theorist Ciro Najle, together with students at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, develop new architectural models for encompassing the unprecedented potential of the extra-extra-large.

Visionary in nature and awe-inspiring in scale, Generic  anticipates groundbreaking territorial forms of architecture, complex in their organization and singular in their presence Ciro Najle is Dean at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella School of Architecture and Urban Studies, and Design Critic at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Co-published with Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

THE GENERIC SUBLIME

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