Iraqi swing bench and Chilean stencil in The Red Square of Superkilen Urban Park.
Tunisian bench and Armenian picnic tables in The Green Park of Superkilen Urban Park.
Belgian bench, Mexican double chair and Japanese Octopus slide in The Black Market of Superkilen Urban Park.
01Finn Hauberg Mortensen, “The Little Mermaid: Icon and Disneyfication,” Scandinavian Studies 80, no. 4 (2008): 442.
02Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” in Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken, 1969), 221-223.
03Jean Baudrillard, The Conspiracy of Art, ed. Sylvère Lotringer, trans. Ames Hodges (New York, Los Angeles: Semiotexte, 2005), 117,124.
04Jean Baudrillard, Symbolic Exchange and Death, trans. Iain Hamilton Grant (London; Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1998), 50–56,72–75.
05Umberto Eco, “Travels in Hyperreality,” in Travels in Hyperreality: Essays, trans. William Weaver (London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986), 6–8,19.
06Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, trans. S. F. Glaser (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1994), 1,3; Eco, Travels, 19.
07Bjarke Ingels, Yes is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution (Cologne: Taschen, 2010), 41.
08Bjarke Ingels, “The Real Deal,” Perspecta 42 (2010): 106.
09Ingels, Yes is More, 44; Bjarke Ingels, Hot to Cold: An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), 142; Ingels, “The Real Deal,” 107.
10John Tagliabue, “A Little Danish Mermaid Comes Up for Air in China,” New York Times, published 28 April, 2010, 6.
11Eco, Travels, 36.
12Benjamin, “The Work of Art,” 218,220.
13Carina Ren and Szilvia Gyimóthy, “Transforming and Contesting National Branding Strategies: Denmark at the Expo 2010,” Place Branding and Public Diplomacy 9, no.1 (2013): 25.
14Ingels, Yes is More, 41.
15Ingels, Hot to Cold, 131.
16Ren and Gyimóthy, “Transforming,” 23,25.
17Ingels, Hot to Cold, 418.
18Ida Sandström, “The Fragmentary Demand: Superkilen in Nørrebro,” in Urban Squares: Spatio-temporal Studies of Design and Everyday Life in the Öresund Region, ed. Mattias Kärrholm (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2015), 119.
19Barbara Steiner, “Beyond Being Nice,” in Superkilen, ed. Barbara Steiner (Stockholm: Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing, 2013), 16.
20Bjarke Ingels, Martin Rein-Cano, Rasmus Nielsen, and Tina Saaby, “Red, Black, and Green (Topography and Typology),” in Superkilen, ed. Barbara Steiner (Stockholm: Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing, 2013), 30.
21Bjarke Ingels, Nanna Gyldholm Møller, Martin Rein-Cano, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen, Jakob Fenger, and Rasmus Nielsen, “Imagine a Moroccan Fountain! (Selection and Realisation),” in Superkilen, ed. Barbara Steiner (Stockholm: Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing, 2013), 59,63; Barbara Steiner, “Soil from Palestine,” in Superkilen, ed. Barbara Steiner (Stockholm: Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing, 2013), 157–160.
22Ingels et al., “Imagine a Moroccan Fountain!” 59.
23Ingels, Hot to Cold, 419; Barbara Steiner, “Index: Objects, Tress, and Pavings,” in Superkilen, ed. Barbara Steiner (Stockholm: Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing, 2013), 188,204.
24Ingels et al., “Imagine a Moroccan Fountain!” 56.
25Ibid., 58.
26Ibid., 63; Steiner, “Index,” 203.
27Benjamin, “The Work of Art,” 220.
28Ingels et al., “Red, Black, and Green,” 31.
29Scott A. Lukas, “The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nation, and Self,” in The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nation, and Self, ed. S. A. Lukas (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007), 8.
30Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 12; Jean Baudrillard, Screened Out, trans. C. Turner (New York: Verso Books, 2002), 151.
31Eco, Travels, 43–48.
X-RAY ARCHITECTURE
IN CONVERSATION WITH BEATRIZ COLOMINA
Paimio Sanatorium by Alvar Aalto, Paimio, Finland. Image courtesy of The Alvar Aalto Foundation.
Professor Beatriz Colomina is an internationally renowned architectural historian. She visited Melbourne in 2019 to present a lecture on her latest book, X-Ray Architecture, at the Melbourne School of Design. This work challenges traditional understandings of Modern architecture and its origins. Through her research into tuberculosis and the evolution of the X-Ray, Professor Colomina proposes how Modern