Peter Barber is designing a city every day for a year
London-based architect Peter Barber is developing 365 urban masterplans, in a project called One Year 365 Cities, to prove that it should be possible "to design a city in 10 minutes".
Peter Barber is sketching a city every day and sharing the results on the Instagram account One Year 365 Cities
"One year 365 cities is an attempt to design a city a day for a year," Barber, founder of Peter Barber Architects, told Dezeen.
He said the inspiration behind the idea was a statement by American theorist Lewis Mumford.
"The idea arose from Lewis Mumford's assertion that modernism has 'failed to produce even a rough draft for a decent neighbourhood', and from a pub remark made by my friend and colleague Ben Stringer, who said that you ought to be able to design a city in 10 minutes." The quick sketches, including a town in a ravine, are meant to question the form of cities
Barber, who has designed and built numerous housing schemes in London, has been sketching a design for a city every day since 17 August and uploading them to his One Year 365 Cities Instagram account.
Some of the cities that Barber has designed so far include a town in a ravine in the Basque region of Spain, a farming cooperative in Wiltshire, UK, and a island village of fish farmers in the Thames estuary.
Baber has designed a 100-mile city that would surround London as part of the project
Through the project, Barber hopes to start discussions and reflect on the current form are ci...
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