August 2010
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a social exchange_ bartlett portfolio, volume...
a social exchange_ bartlett portfolio, volume two
a social exchange_ bartlett portfolio, volume one
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architecture in movement_ the dynamics of exchange between people and their environment. re-articulating a corporate, urban plaza by constructing a participatory environment and inserting a spontaneous, counter program into this calculated, formulaic space.
a social exchange_ the making of
this project used the act of performance to construct a participatory environment, staging scenarios of how the exchange square is used everyday and allowing each act to be malleable and to change as the participants grew more confident as a group and in the space. by intimately engaging with the space during the performance the relationship between people and the...
the dynamics of exchange
An exchange is the act of giving one thing and receiving another in return. In today’s international world this process of exchange is constantly in motion - be it currency, commodities, ideas, knowledge, or dialogue - everything is moving around the globe with increasing speed. Within architecture, the dynamics of exchange takes place in an ongoing push and pull, give and take, a perpetual...
ex•change: a [counter] performance
as architects we choreograph spaces for events to happen within. we design spaces to be used. the design of these spaces is shaped by much more than just visual aesthetics, there are the invisible conditions - economical, cultural, climatic, historical, legal, social, current trends, personal propensities - that contribute to making the architecture what it is. the same space is seen differently...