Master of Architecture II Fall 2010

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End of Year Exhibition 2011

End of Year Exhibition 2011

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End of Year Exhibition 2011

End of Year Exhibition 2011

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INCURSIONS INTO URBAN DISCOURSE
Los Angeles
Jerusalem

Professor: Diana Agrest
Instructor: Maria Elena Fanna

This studio focuses on Urban Form through the exploration of the many different forces that intersect in generating it. Two cities with apparently opposite backgrounds were given as the site of this enquiry, revealing through the discovery of their own many specificities a number of paradoxically similar issues.

One of the two given cities was to be selected and (not comparative but independent) readings were produced from an Urbanistic, Technological or Theoretical/Historical Perspective. A reading is the articulation between a creative subject (you) and the various texts of the city, in this case written, drawn and aerial photographs. Through the drawings produced in the reading process, another city is revealed and manifested.

The Readings were developed through personally elaborated: Plans, Maps, Graphics, Diagrams and other Drawings at Various Pertinent Scales.

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