Is Architecture Too Interdisciplinary" Or, Why Architects Need to Start Talking About Architecture Again
This article was originally published by Common Edge as "What We Talk About When We Don?t Talk About Buildings."
The Pantheon in Rome. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/80038275@N00/14984463972'>Flickr user Michael Vadon</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a>
This article was originally published by Common Edge as "What We Talk About When We Don?t Talk About Buildings."One of the last programs I attended as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial was a panel titled ?Making/Writing/Teaching Contested Histories? at the Chicago Cultural Center. The panel, organized by the Feminist Art and Architecture Collaborative (FAAC), aimed to ?foreground issues of class, race, and gender, interrogating how they partake in the production of the built environment.?The panelists, all academics in fields related to the built environment, were asked to bring in an object central to their practice or their teaching method. The objects on display were a painting, a pier, a refugee camp, and a living room.Three or four decades ago, this array would?ve scandalized an audience of architects and architectural scholars, who might?ve been expecting, I don?t know, a photo of the Pantheon, or a plan of it, or even a piece of wood or a brick. Maybe even the choice of a piece of furniture would?ve induced some surprised gasps or confused looks.But it?s 2018 (or, it ...
The Pantheon in Rome. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/80038275@N00/14984463972'>Flickr user Michael Vadon</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a>
This article was originally published by Common Edge as "What We Talk About When We Don?t Talk About Buildings."One of the last programs I attended as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial was a panel titled ?Making/Writing/Teaching Contested Histories? at the Chicago Cultural Center. The panel, organized by the Feminist Art and Architecture Collaborative (FAAC), aimed to ?foreground issues of class, race, and gender, interrogating how they partake in the production of the built environment.?The panelists, all academics in fields related to the built environment, were asked to bring in an object central to their practice or their teaching method. The objects on display were a painting, a pier, a refugee camp, and a living room.Three or four decades ago, this array would?ve scandalized an audience of architects and architectural scholars, who might?ve been expecting, I don?t know, a photo of the Pantheon, or a plan of it, or even a piece of wood or a brick. Maybe even the choice of a piece of furniture would?ve induced some surprised gasps or confused looks.But it?s 2018 (or, it ...
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