SPECIALIZATIONS, INSIGHTS, EXPERIMENTATIONS: ARCHITECTURAL MYTHOLOGIES

The design studio will explore the ways in which architecture can incorporate into its processes elements that have been replaced by the rationalized understanding of technology. An understanding that has been imposed by modernity throughout the 20th century and with even greater strength after the advent of digital tools well into the begging of the 21st. In the context of the studio students will seek through design new possible conditions for the meeting points of the collapsing traditional juxtapositions. In other words, the students will learn to deal with design within the current conditions where all certainties are falling apart: all convictions about what is architectural and what not, what is urban and what is landscape, what is natural and what artificial, what is history and what innovation, are long gone. In their undoing, the need for new architectural and urban myths arises: the students therefore will ultimately be creating architectural myths, embracing the danger that such a process entails. The studio will use as a case study the concept of the archive; as a design vehicle references – architectural or not; as a tool for their modulation technology (or the lack thereof); as a field the city of Thessaloniki; and as a starting point the concept of the island. The aim is to construct architectural narratives / mythologies that could make architecture dangerous again.

mythologies

21-02-2022