Although the spaceship-worthy, glass-blown architecture for the exhibition “Escape into the Upper Air” is strictly imaginary, the London based Spanish designers Rosario Hurtado and Roberto Feo, gknown as El Ultimo Grito, have created what they call “propositions for the social, material and spiritual elements of cities.” For their show at Spring Projects in London earlier this month, the self-proclaimed “post-disciplinarians” installed a model city with the most elegant urban sprawl you’ll ever see.
By hooking up just a few cars to a grid that allows engineers to adjust conditions based on real-time traffic conditions, everyone would be blessed with congestion-free rides.
He's being called "an urban planning prodigy" with "an uncanny sense of how things actually get done in an American city." Daniel Jacobson hasn't yet graduated from Stanford, but he has produced a plan strong enough to catch the attention of a major city.
