The Structure Of Desire

This paper mainly studies the concept structure"New Babylon"⁽¹⁾created by the architect and artist Constant Nieuwenhuys from 1950s to 1970s."New Babylon"focused on the architectural development strategies and themes put forward by Constante in response to many modern issues such as the excessive development of rationalism in the society and culture after World War II,and the alienation of consumption.New Babylon is an"impromptu"work,which emphasizes the importance of"desire"in architectural behavior and provides the possibility of rational logic translation in procedural strategies,becoming a"desiring-machine"that promotes the production of complexity;it is also not an impromptu The work contains sufficient structuralist theoretical research,using flexibility as an indicator,and is the first to promote cybernetics,electronic technology and other technical ideas to architectural design,so that its atmosphere and perception are not limited to a rationalist calculation framework.An interactive medium that responds to human irrational activities.In view of these concepts,the discussion session consists of four parts:the first part uses Constant's post-war activities as the timeline to sort out the influence of"New Babylon"in the development process;the second part is the first part As a basis,discuss the position and goals of"New Babylon"in its environment,summarize the themes of its concern and derived conceptual strategies;the third part,through the study of some of its descendants,discusses the importance of"New Babylon"to the present Part of the feasibility and influence of architectural design;the fourth part,combined with the current conditions,based on the themes and strategies discussed in the previous article,conducts experimental design,and continues the previous article to discuss the current development of Constant's concept.