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0242 Creating
an Online Architectural Journal:Welcome to our website presenting
the thoughts and visual expressions of students exploring the language
of architectural representation. It was our collective desire to
pursue topics in “transparency” and
its relationship to architectural form, space and urban environments.
Here we explore and parse issues of public"ness", private"ness" and
the social domain of architecture. In pairs, students in this class
have come to their own conclusions as to how to interpret and present
issues of transparency––their inquiries,
via websites, are presented here. January 2008 |
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Sir Norman
Foster’s addition to the Reichstag in Berlin was based on the ideathat
the building present a transparent face for the country’s
(relatively) new democracy. What can transparency--as both a physical
and metaphoricalconcept--tell us about how democratic institutions use
architecture in representing themselves? |
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From a shaft
of light that falls into a subway station, to the glass walls of a drive-in
church, transparency relates itself to the transportation experience
in unexpected ways. Join us as we consider bringing light into subway
stations to brighten the public realm, and contrast the private experience
within the automobile. |
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Security.
Paranoia. Fear. Anxiety. Crime. Visibility. Vulnerability. Voyeurism.
Accountability. Big Brother. Dystopia. Democracy. Does
transparency make you feel safe? Think about the connection between the animated
film Renaissance, Barack Obama, and CCTV. Find out how to get from
Point A to Point B without being caught on a security camera. And much
more!
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Transparency
is at its core perception through movement. In an attempt to illuminate
interconnectivity between bodies, politics, and space, we have created
a microcosmic network that may be penetrated, explored, and further reimagined. |
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With the
influential twentieth century works of Mies van der Rohe and other architects
of the modernist genre, American cities have absorbed new characteristics.
As real estate was being pushed higher into the sky, designers consciously
chose to maintain a certain level of simplicity while also incorporating
the notion of transparency into their works. The result: today's modern
city. |
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