Masters of Architecture in Architectural Design, C.E.P.T. University, Semester 1
Studio- Cultivating Architectural Critiques, Tutor- Prof. Shubhra Raje
Studio Intent- Critical Interventions at the C.E.P.T. Campus, Ahmadabad, India
Most architectural projects begin with a concept which is understood as an abstract idea, often diagrammatic, to which the subsequent design process is beholden to. This need for abstraction, inherited from post-enlightenment critiques, maintains that design excellence can only come from a freedom from everyday practices, obligations and constraints. And in many cases, as evidenced by lectures and publications of architectural works globally, the end-result is presented as though it is inevitable; the work of architecture becomes a reduction to an isolated “aha” moment of inspiration. All liveness is evened out, flattened, and a formal distancing is established. The studio reconsiders this distancing.
