stupid catalogue submission
Always good fun trying to name a project 10 min before you’re due to submit catalogue images. Been throwing around different names, trying to come up with something that would nicely round up ‘instability’, ‘pandemonium’, ‘euphoric–depressive’, and ‘greed sucks’. I gave up, and just stole a well known phrase, ‘Beyond the Dreams of Avarice’.
Here’s the crappy blurb that’s going into the catalogue. Hopefully it’s vague enough to give me space to move:
Buildings designed to house and stand for institutions of finance have tended to portray notions of stability, order, growth and power. the unstable and cyclic nature of economics is rarely acknowledged, even though these qualities are an inherent part of the financial system to which these buildings owe their existence. Beyond the Dreams of Avarice is a proposal for a financial centre in the melbourne cbd that has come about from an exploration of several themes – the unstable, endogenous nature of the financial system; the psychology of debt and the wisdom of crowds; the tower typology in buildings of commerce; and the application of computational design processes to tease out highly abstract concepts into physical form and spatial experience.
