News Article Mash-up re-worked

News Article Mash-up

The built environment is a conceptual playground where the imagination roams free. More and more there are landmarks bursting from within the confines of their rectilinear and physical law-abiding realities. Contemporary schools of Architecture should reflect this avant-garde notion that there is no fixed form in the ever-developing world. Buildings that examine critical architectural issues like our current interest in biological processes of constant change create an intimate / couple / between / evolutionary form-finding and optimization. My proposal for the design of this school should include a gradual transition from public to private - from cultural to civic - from conference to residential, a plan that turns a stroll around the block into an experience of continuous variation. Interweaving the mutability and mechanical beauty of construction sites with top-down organisation and bottom-up complexity harnesses the essence of striking yet rational architecture, a poignant vision with akaleidoscopic inventory.

"One way to be an architect is to believe that the voluntary constraints of good design transform the involuntary imprisonments imposed, unseen, by everything else."

                                                                            

Personal additions.

Surreal 3D Architecture mods, http://blog.ponoko.com/2011/07/29/surreal-3d-architecture-mods/ (May. 15, 2013).

Kriston Capps, “Big Proposal Brings the Heat in Miami,” Architect, May. 15, 2013 (http://www.architectmagazine.com/commercial-projects/big-proposes-miami-beach-square-convention-center.aspx).

Thomas de Monchaux, “Back to the Future,” Architect, May. 15, 2013 (http://www.architectmagazine.com/books/back-to-the-future.aspx).

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Contemporary schools of architecture should reflect the avant-garde notion of combining evolutionary form-finding with rational optimization of space. By implementing a gradual transition from public to private - from cultural to civic - the experience of the school can be transformed into one of continuous variation, harnessing the essence of striking yet deliberate architecture.