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Summary

This critical academic exercise will roughly be a matching, or an amalgamation between three major visions of Western architecture and archaeology of late socialist architecture (pre-post-socialist) in the East. Both have failed, the first visions in architectural and urban terms, the later one in terms of ideology. Combining thus memory and matter the overall framework of this study is seeking contemporary aspects of both visions and ideology, and it’s future aesthetics. Given the fact that significant amount of people in Michigan comes from both West and East hemispheres of global migration, the works in this masterclass may relate very closely to the future of space, however both remote in time and space. It will be challenging to fight or choose go along with the forces of nostalgia and archeology combined.

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TripBusStop

The invention of a future busstop typology somewhere between Southfield and Flint, Michigan. From the past back to the future. Imagine that there is public transportation that one can use. Think of the corridor that this distance makes, about one hour by driving. If you were the one taking the bus, how many stops would one need? What is the added purpose of the bus stop besides waiting? Can the space of the stop become the place for being, learning, not for transitioning from A to B only?

Take a look at major precedents on mobility and memory. Constant and his idea for the future from the past project entitled New Babylon is the major example. It is radical because it proposes networked urbanism for a so called Homo Ludus, the man or a woman basing life on the forces of play. It is fair to say that we today live this condition, where work and play are so intermingled that the distinction between them is like air.

In parallel, take a look at the examples of late socialist memorials, institutions and monuments. Most of them are abandoned or vacated today leaving them in a state of contemporary archaeology. It is interesting that late socialist expressions in the East took their cue from the West mostly from land art and abstract expressionist movement in the US. This project may be able to complete the circle and bring the aesthetics back to the US.

Where does memory of this kind of mobility and stasis accrue? Can you think of a bus stop as such kind of spatial framework that allows for monumentality and memory of everyday, or even ordinary life. Or the memory of everyday and creative waiting.

Social Garage

Monument to Dislocation / Expanded inhabitations / New social space in between abandoned houses / Inhabitable monument 

A. Finding essence from 1, 2 & 3

B. Rebuilding by removing essence

C. Rebuild at cloverleaf area

D. Inhabitation

Retreat Cloud

Design a retreat somewhere between Lawrence Tech and Flint preferably on a river, mini lake or in the forest. Find a piece of water or forest that one can occupy with touching the ground minimally.

Main vision shall come from Yona Friedman’s Spatial City, largely considered being a Western utopia. It shall be combined by chosen late socialist archeology in the East which are now in ruins.

All design mediums are encouraged, from analog to digital, physical or virtual. Artistic approaches are welcome. Quick foam models are welcome. Large scale mock-ups are the key to finding architecture as the possible new medium of dislocation.

In terms of design methodology, there are three basic approaches to material design: 1. volume, 2. organization and 3. surface. Together they amalgamate into your propositions.

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Critical Practitioner: Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss/Nao

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Faculty

Martin Schwartz
Scott Shall
Philip Plowright
Charles O'Green
Anirban Adhya
Amy Swift
Irsida Bejo
Christopher Holzwart
Allison Newmeyer
Stewart Hicks
George Taylor
Aaron Jones
Maria Simon

Students

Jeremy Adams
Ibrahim Al Sharif
Zahra Alatl
Nawfaa Albahrani
Christopher Bartholomew
Alexis Blackwell-Brown
Stephen Bohlen
Ashley Brenner
Malwina Brown
Brean Bush
Jerry Carter
Xin Chen
Breck Crandell
Nicholas Cressman
Terri Douglas
Irina Dwyer
Ghantous El-Tayar
Paul Eland
Ali Emgarreb
Nicole Gerou
Eleana Glava
Khalid Hamoodh

Charles Harris
Christina Jackson
Jon Krdu
Ryan Kronbetter
Abhimanyu Lakhey
Geoffrey Lasoski
Tracy Le
Erin Lifton
Jinhan Liu
Maria Lloreda
Benjamin Luther
Randi Marsh
Steven McMahon
Adam Murray
Miroslava Nava
Scott Newsted
Ibn Feisal Peerbaccus
Drew Pelkey
Jonathan Reynolds
Sarah Saleh
Devika Sangurdekar
Stephen Schell
Shannon Schmehl
Laura Schneider

Matthew Seeley
Jonathan Selleck
Christopher Siminski
Nahar Sonbol
Randy Sova
Brendan Sprite
Christopher Stefani
Andriana Stefanov
Kirk Stefko
Suzanne Stiers
Christopher Theisen
Jamie Tischler
Amin Toghiani
Jonathan Tull
Nathaniel Turner
Joseph Vani
Adam Wakulchik
Tyler Walker
Guanyi Wang
Gregory Wood
Shuang Wu
Luting Xu
Chenchun Yang

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