AR3030

Faculty: Percy Pithawala

TA: Aditya Mukherjee

Latter half of the 20th century has been critical to the theoretical discourse and practice in architecture. In 1988, Philip Johnson curated an exhibition on Deconstructivist Architecture at the MoMA, New York. He included works of several architects who were experimenting with a range of thought processes and were engaged in evolving a critical discourse in architecture-making, producing highly original and individualistic built and unbuilt projects.
The studio explores lateral inter-relationships between various design fields and their influences on architecture and design. Studio emphasizes on providing necessary freedom to enable students to explore their independent trajectories and frame individual thoughts within a process based theoretical framework.
The site identified for the studio lies between the iconic Brandenburg gate and Peter Eisenmann’s Holocaust memorial in Berlin. Mapping remnants of ‘The Berlin Wall’, which once divided the city into Eastern and Western quarters is taken as a pivotal point of departure in order to weave together narratives and conceptualize design strategies for “The Wall Museum”. The site with its layered history, traces of past events, memory, sense of place making, contextual overtures, field conditions and future aspirations provides students with unique opportunities to adapt individual inserts appropriate to the context and program.