25 FALL * ISSUE 1 *
25 FALL * ISSUE 1 *
Out of Frame
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Gap Fillers
Lecture Series
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Out of Frame ⁎ Gap Fillers Lecture Series *
This year, our theme is 'Gap Fillers,' which examines the divide between architects and the practical knowledge of engineers, fabricators, and makers. Too often in school, we only see materials through renders, without understanding the labor and expertise behind them.
Week II - III: The City & Global Economy
In reading Rem’s and Sassen’s writing on globalization – and in part due to their Dutch nationality – I was reminded of the lustfully divergent joy and terror of vanitas style paintings that emanated from the beginnings of globalization in 16th century Holland. (Bayowa) // Koolhaas' Junkspace is a fundamentally thermodynamic and geological phenomenon concerned with the reorganization of matter, a single, giant, convective substrate. On the surface it appears hyperspatial: a collapsing of reality into a topologically connected network of air conditioned nodes. (Wolk)