ARCH 672 - PROPOSITIONS
FALL 2024
PROJECTS
Anthony Hernandez - Island Alliance
Tao Chou - The Third Ruins
Of the Eternal and the Ephemeral
The studio aims to explore the phenomenon of time in Architecture. The process of building, like the decay of what has been built, represents an intermediate state, the “no longer” and the “not yet”. This provisional nature refers to a transitional state and the expression of time - whether intentionally or unintentionally.
The paradox of using the forces of nature to delineate an existing thing against the transience of everything natural, challenges architecture to examine its relationship to nature.
From the picturesque as ruin and the grotesque as ornament, we investigated the contradictions of the architectural and artistic concept of nature.
The phenomenon of time has fascinated architects and artists since romanticism and has characterized our culture in multiple facets. We cannot defy time, but we can express it, utilize it, take advantage of it, politicize it, challenge it, or embrace it.
We studied works from Piranesi to the Antivilla and developed individual propositions related to time.
Topics ranged from the virtual and philosophical topics of the changing interpretations of the 'myth' and 'memory', cultural approaches towards monuments and cultural artefacts, to to current concerns such as solutions for new concepts in the light of global climate change and economic threats.