Rem Koolhaas is a clever guy, but he is in the previous generation
his observation on Genericity is based on the 20th century, and stopped there.
Rem inspired me, as the way many others inspired him. For decades, he is one of the few who established new mindsets toward architecture / urnbanism nowadays.
Many people have been tangled by his words( and he's really good at it! ). He's not making assumptions, not asking questions, not even making judgments. Some might think he's making some models for the future, but no, he's sharing merely his own observations on certain phenomenons. Not of the future, nor the presence, but the past twenty or thirty years.
I borrowed his word - generic city - as a beginning of my own opinion. The way we consider "generic", is under the notion of certain "scale" . And I'll argue that, the way we should look at the city(no specific definition of city anymore), is not about looking into every different scale. Only TWO scales that matter: extremely large, and extremely small. Extremely-Large means a super-regional scale (somewhere almost reaches infinite); and Extremely-Small means the fundamental, essential, or original scope(something usually had nothing to do with architecture).
