Research Team:
Anna Arlyapova
Zeynep Beyza Kirazoglu
Jose Luis Arias Reynoso
Berk Ozata
Project Description:
In deep-hermeneutics, reading buildings as material objects is used to unfold a psychoanalytical reading of the particular culture that they belong to. In extension of this, a series of questions arise: How can we read a building through the objects that we can associate to it? Can we at all read a building or a city through objects rather than the intentions of their respective authors, the buildings’ respective contexts or programmes, or the immediate critical assessment of the work?
By proposing an object-oriented reading of buildings, this studio posed the question of authorship within the post-human Zeitgeist.
The studio centred on architecture and the city, investigating the various relationships and possibilities that the contemporary city presents architecture with. The contemporary city, whether small or large, is comprised of an intricate web of individual and collective interests and forces that arise from economical, environmental, social, cultural and other currents and changes. The impact on architecture is massive, and buildings can no longer only be read against local contexts but must seen as intricate parts of a global mesh of material and immaterial flow. Architecture and Urban Design studio explored architectural design as field of creative opportunity within this radically changing field.
