Yona Friedman granted us one of his last interviews before passing away in December 2019. In this unpublished video, he questions centralization and urban density and envisions the future as the establishment of a diffuse “global city,” a position that resonates deeply in the present context.
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In the current climate of instability, new ways of thinking and acting are being considered. Among them are two attitudes of care for the living and the non-living. The planning of cities and territories is the privileged field of application of these concepts, symbols of a profound reconfiguration of our relationship to the world.
The architect is located at the heart of urban challenges whose solutions will allow a city to adapt to profound changes in the global age of the Anthropocene. He must be able to go beyond traditional knowledge and overcome the obsession with form and the idea of a solitary creator. Philippe Chiambaretta strives to synthesize these factors and the challenges of the current radical paradigm shift with the collapse of the modern Western worldview. Based on an understanding of the Anthropocene era, he seeks the foundations of a new vision of architecture based on an open and collaborative approach to creation. His view is not blinded by the promises of technology, but is one in which the city exists in a continuum with the biosphere. Philippe Chiambaretta graduated from the École des Ponts et Chaussées of Paris and MIT in Boston. He is the founder and director of PCA-STREAM.