Singapore Songlines- Thirty Years of Tabula Rasa.docVIP

Singapore Songlines: Thirty Years of Tabula Rasa 1995 Rem Koolhaas 新加坡的歌谣：30年一片空白 1995雷姆·库哈斯 Fung Suay: old Chinese belief that client will continue to prosper if he remains on original site… 中国的老人们相信，只要待在原地，就能保持顾客盈门。 ——Fung Suay We want to guide the bulldozers to the right places. --Singapore Green Plan 我们想让推土机手开到正确的地方去。 ——新加坡绿色计划 Singapore is a very small place in a very, very large, variable, changing world, and if it is not nimble, if it is not swift in making adjustments, it will perish and the people know that. --Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, May 27, 1990 新加坡是处在一个非常非常巨大而多变的世界中的一块很小的地方，如果它反应不够灵敏，不能迅速作出调整，它将衰败下去。新加坡的人民都知道这一点。 I turned eight in the harbor of Singapore. We did not go ashore, but I remember the smell—sweetness and rot, both overwhelming. Last year I went again. The smell was gone. In fact, Singapore was gone, scraped, rebuilt. There was a completely new town there. 我在新加坡的港口长到八岁。我们不上岸，但是我记得那些气味——甜美的或腐臭的，同样都来势汹汹。 Almost all of Singapore is less than 30 years old; the city represents the ideological production of the past three decades in its pure form, uncontaminated by surviving contextual remnants. It is managed by a regime that has excluded accident and randomness: even its nature is entirely remade. It is pure intention: if there is chaos, it is authored chaos; if it is ugly, it is designed ugliness; if it is absurd, it is willed absurdity. Singapore represents a unique ecology of the contemporary. 新加坡的任何东西几乎都小于30岁，这座城市用一种纯净的方式展示着它过去30年来的意识形态上的产物，那些未被污染的生存语境的残余。它被自己的政权掌管着，排除了所有的偶然性和随机性：甚至它的“天性”都被重塑了。所有的事情都有其目的性：如果存在混乱，那是被创作出来的混乱；如果存在丑陋，那是被设计的丑陋；如果存在荒谬，那是有意识的荒谬。新加坡呈现着一种关于现状的特殊的生态。 Like similar conditions of newness, it has been received with derision. As the notion of the West becomes increasingly enfeeble, “we” will always remain in possession of our ultimate weapon, the power of irony. A disproportionate amount of it is aimed at this territorially negligible mini-Sparta: William Gibson calls it “Disneyland with the Death Penalty”, Deyan Sudjic, “