The form of the Story does not belong to the present time, especially as narrative structures that imply finality and teleological ideas of progress. The studio operates with the question that if the soothing comfort of logic and successful conclusions are no longer a part of the epistome, then what values does architecture reinforce? How can architecture explore Place for both- registering perceptions as well as contribution through design?
Students will be introduced to classical projects of architecture to be studied as an open field of meanings. Rather than fostering a prescriptive architectural ideology, these works will be explored through imaginative drawing and mapping exercises based on modes of observation and knowing that include but are not limited to categorization, rhetoric, abstraction, and associative memory.
Student’s interventions could take the form of a design project, scenographic installation, land art, film, etc. Participants will be encouraged to free the proposals from easy moral-markers, bromides of form-program-site relationships and engage with the truth of their own experience. In the process of schematic formulation, techniques such as lack of linear development, overcoming programmatic preconceptions, formal experimentation, and use of symbolism will be put in the service of a thinking, caring, communicating architecture.
