POLITICS OF FABRICATION I: Brief 04 W1

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.

22.1.10

Brief 04 W1

W1 Shape/Space
25-31 Jan
Skins are not only thin, flat surfaces, but they have also proven their ability to produce and incorporate space within their thickness. Students will evaluate these properties using their own designs by producing a different range of models and schematic drawings.

Readings
David Leatherbarrow & Mohsen Mostafavi, Surface Architecture, MIT Press, 2002.
Richard Sennett, Fall of the Public Man, London: Faber, 1986.

References
Frank Ghery, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2003.
Herzog and de Meuron, Ciudad el Flamenco, 2005.
Canales + Lombardero Patio House Without House, 2006.

POLITICS OF FABRICATION I

22.1.10

Brief 04 W1

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