Propaganda/Negotiation: Multiple Exposure Architecture
News dissemination worldwide is facing a crisis which echoes political conflict across the spectrum of left and right. Journalistic neutrality has eroded and increasingly, media outlets are blurring the distinction between reporting and editorializing, presenting viewpoint as truth, erasing the traditional separation of fact and opinion. The studio will critique the methods of propaganda and the process of negotiation. The experiment of the studio will be to create an open-ended dialogue between propaganda and negotiation, using architecture as a medium.
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Fall 2006
Asylum Seekers and a new Global Community
"Resettlement: Asylum Seekers and a new Global Community"
The objectives of this studio are to investigate, analyze, and produce new relationships emergent from and within contending programs; a multi-cultural dwelling complex and the inherent diversity of the public pool. Additionally, we will investigate and understand economies of the urban context and the potential merge between those existing communities that can develop and provide for the new resettlement.
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Fall 2009
Urban Cultivations+Global Movements
We are in one of the most extravagant moments of experiencing the ‘global lifestyle’ where the words, luxury, service and lifestyle, have become synonymous with global living. We are also in a time of gastronomic crisis; many heritage foods that are coveted are being lost, food seed banks are being built as future resources, and distribution of ‘exotic’ foods is
becoming more and more expensive as fuel costs rise. This studio will investigate, analyze, and produce new relationships emergent from and within a global generic program of a luxury service hotel with a specifically local urban agricultural slow food movement.
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Fall 2008
States of Transition on the Mexican / American Border
Following the events of September 11th 2001 our world has changed dramatically with regard to security and freedom; the transportation of individuals, vehicles, and products across international borders, most poignantly in the United States has been altered by numerous safety procedures. The movement of persons and information across borders requires ever-changing systems of surveillance, prevention, oversight, control and command. This studio will investigate the need, placement, identity and subsequent design of Crossings at the Mexican/American border.
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Spring 2005
Homeland Security Regional Headquarters
In reflection of 9-11, many have analyzed, challenged and mused over issues of public space; in the city, in the neighborhoods and in the roles of daily lives. Quietly new architectural projects have begun to alter the public realm often responding to pragmatic functions without contemplation of the underlying issues. New concerns have developed regarding security, boundary, surveillance and national identity. Since 9-11, these concerns have also become a primary disquiet within the government’s operative dominion and ultimately resulted in developing a new branch of government; The Department of Homeland Security.
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Spring 2003
Public Space in the Aftermath of September 11th
As the effects of September 11th continue to unfold, architects, planners, landscape architects, policy-makers and civic groups have gathered in attempt to shape the rebuilding process. Largely, these efforts have been focused on the immediate needs of local residents and the victim’s families, ignoring the more seminal questions of the changed role of public space after the attacks. Even within the conventional terms that these groups have functioned, the recommendations at best, are broad guidelines built around a consensus and nominal information in a highly contested site.
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Spring 2002
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