Flipping through the Center 21 reading, the artifacts shown act as instruments of inquiry rather than a solid outcome which emphasizes a reciprocal relationship between both the tools we use and the exploration process in design. ...
The Yokohama International Passenger Terminal, designed by Foreign Office Architects (FOA) in the 1990s, has come to represent a critical moment in architectural discourse at the turn of the millennium. More than simply a building, it was conceived as a new type of public infrastructure that blurred distinctions between urbanism, architecture, and landscape. As the project evolved, FOA rejected conventional notions of terminal buildings as rigid, circulation-driven structures, instead proposing a dynamic field condition where movement, public space, and architectural...
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In “Why Site Matters”, Burns and Kahn dismantle a long-standing assumption that a site is bound to parcels of land which are assigned to a particular project. Instead, the thought is that the site is a relational field; shaped by history, politics, ecology, and human perceptions. The reading begins by illustrating how different architects faced with the same Olympic Village site constructed entirely different models of what the “site” even was. ...
This piece brought about the thought of balance. How do we balance between the need for urbanization and our responsibilities to the environment in which we build. It is delicate and more often than not, is unachievable in the current social climates sadly. ...
This piece is a bit unsettling since I do not subscribe to the notion that confinement as liberating. I guess in a way it could be but I’d hate to be confined in an oppressive way which seemed to flow through the writing. ...
This essay provides a comparative analysis of soils and concrete material testing between civilian construction projects located in California and military construction projects located in combat zones, such as Iraq. It explores how the civilian and military construction sectors each approach materials testing based on differing performance expectations, regulatory requirements, and operational priorities. Civilian construction is guided by strict standards from building codes to regulatory bodies such as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and the American Concrete...
In Frampton’s writing, he critiques architecture—more specifically, the failings of Modernist architecture and the principles it espouses. He argues that Modernism, in its disregard for culture, nature, and history, has led to the erasure of localized identities; replacing them with structures that adhere to a homogenized and universal aesthetic. Frampton focuses on how architecture can resist the dominant tropes of Modernism, such as the statement “form follows function”, which he believes have had catastrophic consequences. ...