In the last several years, a crisis of capitalist development has redefined our understanding of cities in terms of international policy making, political constituencies and individual and collective political expressions in the urban realm. Inter Unit 8 has been experimenting with possible new scenarios for this political readjustment at a global scale, departing from its most basic expressions in the city. As a result, students have constructed innovative political arguments by experimenting with the relationship between everyday material activities–such as waiting for a bus, dancing, chatting in the streets, or wheeling and dealing in the city squares–and a particular material organization. In these common everyday practices, students have found the materials from which to reconstruct the political experience in the city. Manifested in public and constructed as a physical material expression, these everyday practices acquire a political value — understanding the political as what Hannah Arendt described as action in public — and redefine new models of the interaction between the individual and the collective in the public arena.

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Brief 04 W3

W3 Transparency/Reflection/Projection
08-12 Feb


Transparency is a fundamental property for any politically healthy environment. Projection and reflection are increasingly important for representational purposes in political activation. Therefore, students will test these three qualities through drawings and conceptual models.


Readings
C. Rowe and R. Slutzky Transparency, Birkhauser, 1997, pp.21-56.
Josep Quetglas, “Fear of Glass: The Barcelona Pavilion”, in Architecture Production, N.Y: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988, pp. 122-151.
Jeffery Kipnis, "The Cunning of Cosmetics", Du 5 no.706 (May 2000), pp.6-9.


References
Walter Gropius, Total Theater for Erwin Piscator, Berlin, 1927.
Pierre Charreau, Maison de Verre, Paris, 1928/32.
Giuseppe Terragni, Casa del Fascio, Lissone, Italy, 1932-36.
Peter Zumthor, Bregenz Museum, Austria, 1990-1997.


Visits (tbc)
Laban Contemporary Dance Centre, Creekside, Deptford – London, Herzog and de Meuron, 2003.
30 St. Mary Axe Street - London, Foster & Partners, 2004.
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Design and research work of Intermediate Unit 8 Architectural Association School of Architecture London UK