Ricardo Bofill's fascinating apartment building Walden 7, located in Sant Just Desvern, close to Barcelona, and named after B. F. Skinner’s 1948 utopian sci-fi novel 'Walden Two'. Photographs by Boluddha, Andre Josselin and archdaily.com/332142/ad-clas
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Here's a quick, yet informed and enjoyable read on Walden 7 frieze.com/article/fortre and here's more photographic material from Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA) ricardobofill.com/projects/walde
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One of the crucial passages in Skinner's 'Walden Two' (1948): "The main thing is, we encourage our people to view every habit and custom with an eye to possible improvement. A constantly experimental attitude toward everything — that's all we need". Utopianism at its best.
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And in the opening pages of 'Walden' [one] by Henry David Thoreau (1854) – a “Utopia for one” as B. F. Skinner described it – we find this decisive remark: "Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me"