CORONICA

This exhibition titled Coronica addresses the new challenges faced by architects with the presence of Covid-19 and effects on the design of the urban landscape. As the world continues to battle the rapid spread of coronavirus, confining many individuals to their homes and dramatically changing the way we travel around, operate in and think about our cities, some are wondering which of these changes will last beyond the end of the pandemic, and what life on the other side could look like.

After close-reading Andrea Branzi’s Agronica I can infer that this futurist, abstract methodology of the metropolis is rapidly becoming a reality we could not foresee and is beginning to take a grasp on our everyday lives in every possible way. Agronica suggests that places/buildings are losing their functional identity and that the functions which normally correspond to a certain place can be performed pretty much anywhere else with the advancement in electronics and technologies.

Given our current climate with Covid-19 this model of weak urbanism is one in which we have had to adopt. The home and the office are all included within but assume different forms, using different types of technologies and different types of design.