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Iteration Laboratory: Design & Print Studio / Posts tagged "built environment"

Review: Foreign Office Architects (FOA): The Yokohama International Passenger Terminal

by Regina Troglin
Academic
November 19, 2025

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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Studio as Barrier: How Architectural Pedagogy Conflicts with ADA Principles (Part 1)

by Regina Troglin
Academic
July 15, 2025

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...

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Review: Kenneth Frampton: Towards a Critical Regionalism

by Regina Troglin
Academic
April 7, 2025

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. ...

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