Here, There & EVERYWHERE

A DESIGN STUDIO LED BY Senesios Frangos

This studio is about architecture and its relation to time, place and culture otherwise known as ‘context.’ Specifically, how these parameters can be understood, employed and manipulated to inform the design of public buildings that can be both local and global at the same time. This studio rejects the tabula rasa of the modernist project. This studio will seek to interrogate, extract and uncover NOT impose and force its will. This studio leverages mechanisms of globalism, proposing an alternative to the ‘international style.’ We will be writing an idiot’s guide or manual for how to be in two places at once. Architecture, our vessel and cast as an amorphous being, shapeshifting based on where its feet are buried in the ground. The architectural techniques and operations to be used like a utilitarian handbook, a universal design theory that satisfies contemporary culture’s short attention span and obsession with mass production, while at the same time being grassroots and local.

The resulting design question raised is can it be here, there and everywhere?