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WhatTF is architecture?

Winchester College Studium

Alex Haw : atmos : 12.10.11

Alex Haw

ART

architecture defies

gravity

architecture is a

form of media

architecture

tells stories

architecture is

multidimensional

architecture might

not be a building

PEOPLE

architecture orders our environment

architecture constructs

social space

architecture means

sheltering strangers

architecture

relates us

architecture

is ergonomic

architecture

comforts us

architecture

ensnares us

architecture

augments us

John Constable

Cloud Study

1822 Oil on paper laid on board 12 x 19 1/4 in (30.5 x 49 cm) Courtauld Institute Galleries, London

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Rain, Steam and Speed

c. 1844 Oil on canvas 35 3/4 x 48 in. (90.8 x 121.9 cm) National Gallery, London

architecture

expresses us

architecture makes

music from sounds

architecture choreographs our interactions

architecture lends grace to our movements

architecture offers a moment

of immersive sensuality

architecture weaves

occupiable poetry

TECHNOLOGY

architecture generates

atmosphere

architecture creates

new climates

architecture creates

landscapes

architecture is

solar

PLACE

architecture choreographs

our relationship with nature

architecture rethinks

how we inhabit

so how should

WE BUILD?

equitably

publicly

connectively

collectively

imaginatively

invisibly

molecularly

technologically

computationally

digitally

parametrically

generatively

precisely

automatically

rapidly

economically

unprecedentedly

independently

experimentally

robotically

responsively

interactively

sensitively

intelligently

informationally

metabolically

heliotropically

climatically

ecologically

naturally

enduringly

harmoniously

holistically

humanly

meaningfully

American History

June 12 2005

Death is very likely

the single best invention of Life.

It is Life's change agent.

It clears out the old

to make way for the new.

Stay Hungry

Stay Foolish

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