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. ...
Architectural education is deeply rooted in a studio based learning model, which immerses the students in forced collaborative environments and creative atmospheres with their peers. However, this learning model has also been criticized for its approaches to education which create accessibility barriers. This two-part paper, Studio as Barrier: How Architectural Pedagogy Conflicts with ADA Principles, explores how the culture within the studio environment marginalizes neurodivergent students and fails to align with the spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA...
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. ...