Author: Openact Architecture Team: Zuhal Kol, Carlos Zarco Sanz. Advisor: Neeraj Bhatia Type: Research Status: Published Period: August 2014 The rapid expansion of the cities in 20th century introduced the notion of indeterminacy within architecture and the city as the urban fields morphed into vast and increasingly pluralistic territories. The ability of architecture to determine the product has become so complex and dubious under the pressure of ever-changing sociopolitical, financial, technological or cultural demands that the architectural program became indeterminate, and shifted the role of architecture in the urban territory. The study focuses on a new role and relevancy for the architect who is confronted with an increasingly unpredictable globe and contingent city, and examines Koolhaas’s Parc de La Villete and Downsview Tree City projects which attempt to find a template to design with determinism that simultaneously responds to the diversity of the public sphere and metropolis. Throughout the history of architecture, the role of the architect has been to determine the lines to form the life on earth. In the past two centuries, however, it is inevitable to observe that as cities have rapidly expanded into vast urban territories that are increasingly pluralistic, the ability to determine such lines has become progressively more complex, as any architectural enterprise is subject to changing political, financial, technological and cultural demands. The influence of these ever-changing forces attempted to modify the initial program of the architectural product, in a way that, the notion of indeterminacy within architecture and the city not only halted the project of Modernism but also spawned several trajectories of design that embraced flexible, soft, dynamic and transforming systems to respond to the new needs of the expanding city and its pluralistic inhabitants.... Click here: http://reia.es/REIA212.pdf