EL CROQUIS, number a monograph on MVRDV, is the third monograph produced by the publisher on this office establi. 'Cover Cd for Desde el Mar Label.

METACITY/DATATOWN is based on the video installation of the same title produced for the Stroom Center for the Visual Arts. METACITY Due to ever-expanding communications networks and the immeasurable web of interrelationships they generate, the world has shed the anachro- nism global village and is transformingi nto the more advanced state of the Metacity. The worlds available territories for the metacity: 4.

Using numbers or data to describe the vast- ness of the Metacity. Selecting data according to hypothetical prescriptions, diagrams work asemblems for operations, agendas, tasks. DATATOWN based only upon data, it is a city that wants to be described by information. THere is no given topography, no prescribed ideology, no rep-resentation, no context. Using Extremizing Scenarios,data lead to frontiers, edges, and therefore inventions. Datatown is constructed on a series of what- ifs that embody different assumptions, so itis always in progress. If the world settlement envelope has been filled up with 376 datatowns,the world capacity will be 18 times thecurrent population.