Marthinus Grobler: Free City Design, Fiat Architecture & New Urbanism
“If you have these ecologies of freedom, you can make amazing cities and that is one of the best things you can do. I think you’ll be hard pressed to do it somewhere else these days. Even existing, amazing cities are being ruined by bad policy and not being allowed to mature or being allowed to mature enough.. There is no price discovery in the market of living together.“
Todays’ podcast is an episode about Free City planning with Tipolis’s chief architect, Marthinus Grobler.
I loved talking with Martinus. Not least because he let me rant about one of my personal bugbears, Modernist architecture. However, lovers of brutalism should not despair, since our discussion also touches upon subjects such as urban design, progressivism, central planning, new urbanism, and fiat architecture. I also get Martinus’s opinion on what he thinks of the way that the design of the modern Emirates has evolved as a possible case study for urban planning in the future, something that has left me wondering whether skyscrapers and high-rise buildings are even a good idea at all.
Enjoy the conversation.