Architecture -Camouflage, Potemkin Village, Building Facade, Architectural Article
Camouflage Architecture – Potemkin Village
Architecture Facade Design, Building Type Discussion – article by Brian Carter, Buffalo, NY, USA
Dec 29, 2018
Camouflaged Architfecture – Potemkin Village
Deceptive Construction – Facades that disguise
Definition of Potemkin village: an impressive facade or show designed to hide an undesirable fact or condition
Camouflage Architecture – Potemkin Village – The Monthly Report
Images of spindly towers and city fabric recall Potemkin?s villages. And like those fleeting facades, supposedly built to catch the eye of important passers, these contemporary proposals suggest hubris and advocate the use of cloth. Idealized portrayals of alternative landscapes and hazy images persist while renderings. models and elaborate mock-ups continue to project ideas of possible futures. Commissioned by property developers, politicians and communities and prepared enthusiastically by architects, digital wizards, artists and city planners such images Increasingly define our streets, fill screens, commandeer 3D printers and paper over walls in architect?s offices, corporate boardrooms and schools of architecture worldwide.
Happy on Flatiron North Public Plaza

photography : Benjamin Cadena
And while materials, use or weather ? historical references in architecture and hints regarding the design of buildings ? can no longer be trusted gl...