Thesis Highlights
Appropriation and Modification: Swiss Models of Regeneration of Buildings, Urban Space, and Constructive Technique
The studio explores the underlying prerequisites of architectural sustainability in its most holistic and comprehensive sense. How, and perhaps more importantly Why are certain objects, buildings, urban spaces, and ways of making sustained while others are discarded? While these questions are cultural and theoretical in nature, they have profound global, climactic implications for human survival and quality of life. The work of contemporary Swiss architects, notably the offices of Peter Zumthor and Herzog & De Meuron, includes a number of pertinent precedents at a variety of scales and modes of making that will be the focus of this research studio.
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