Sensitive, progressive Architecture can elevate the status of underprivileged people in society and contribute to progressive social and cultural development.
The inability of the underprivileged to obtain the same luxuries as the privileged results in expansive fissures in the social and economic climate. While these fissures depress the community, they also create an opportunity for (re)invention and ingenuity to propel the status of the relevant group. Architecture that utilizes these opportunities and is aligned with the community's progressive and coherent thought results in the elevated status of these underprivileged people - an empowering condition defiant of the enduring fissures in globalized societies.
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Position Paper V.1.2
Resourceful Use of Materials Relative to Societal and Environmental Concerns is
Architectural Expression of "Global Culture" is cancerous (I fear this point is irrelevant.) Societies need architecture that is not an expression of consumerism and wealth, but one that is an expression of the social needs of that place. This cultural relevance is what will propel architecture in to a .... (place?)
In a continually growing network of globalized countries is Architecture only to be a consumer based endeavor...... What about Architecture for the people?
Site: Lost geographical, environmental, spacial concerns of macro and micro area.
Program: Social relevance, inclusive, exclusive, continually progressive, timid, blatant
Space: Expressive, Scale, Approach, Entry, Threshold, Adequate, Over-adequate, pleasing, shocking, exhilarating, temporary, lasting.
What is the role of ingenuity in these projects? Would I be satisfied creating a very elegant space that meets the needs of the people and program? Or will I and society be better served by pushing it further. If thesis is to set a precedent for the next 5, 10 , 15 ,50 years of my life- I'm not comfortable with this project not pushing it further. "It" = Convention. "Pushing it further"= Avante Garde
Inability of "poor", disabled, underpriveleged to mediate harsh environments with avaible building materials, structures, transportation- providing alternatives utilizing local materials, labor and practice (?)--- and progressive, non-conventional
Architectural Expression of "Global Culture" is cancerous (I fear this point is irrelevant.) Societies need architecture that is not an expression of consumerism and wealth, but one that is an expression of the social needs of that place. This cultural relevance is what will propel architecture in to a .... (place?)
In a continually growing network of globalized countries is Architecture only to be a consumer based endeavor...... What about Architecture for the people?
Site: Lost geographical, environmental, spacial concerns of macro and micro area.
Program: Social relevance, inclusive, exclusive, continually progressive, timid, blatant
Space: Expressive, Scale, Approach, Entry, Threshold, Adequate, Over-adequate, pleasing, shocking, exhilarating, temporary, lasting.
What is the role of ingenuity in these projects? Would I be satisfied creating a very elegant space that meets the needs of the people and program? Or will I and society be better served by pushing it further. If thesis is to set a precedent for the next 5, 10 , 15 ,50 years of my life- I'm not comfortable with this project not pushing it further. "It" = Convention. "Pushing it further"= Avante Garde
Inability of "poor", disabled, underpriveleged to mediate harsh environments with avaible building materials, structures, transportation- providing alternatives utilizing local materials, labor and practice (?)--- and progressive, non-conventional
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