Congratulations to Maxwell Perry, who received an award for Outstanding Design Work in 2A (Arch 292)for the 2A term in Fall 2019.
Arch
292
The
Function
of
Effect:
Durational
Space
In
Architecture
and
Cinema
Coordinated
by
David
Correa
+
Dereck
Revington
Our
ambition
in
this
studio
is
that
you
might
be
nudged
into
a
dance
with
architecture;
an
architecture
of
your
imagination
and
making,
and
that
we
too,
as
passers-by,
might
be
nudged
in
this
dance.
We
all
need
mediators
as
Gilles
Deleuze
asserts,
something
to
set
us
in
motion
and,
at
the
outset
of
this
studio
it
is
cinema
that
will
be
deployed
to
put
us
in
orbit.
The City of Today Tomorrow is alive. It swells, consumes, and builds towards a better future. It competes and reaches out to neighbouring cities. They combine to form an endless concrete sprawl. As quickly as it builds, the city falls into disrepair. In one of these pockets a memorial rises. You stand as the perpetrator and the victim. It is not your fault that the city has built itself the way it has but your quietness is just as telling. Ethereal, it hangs above you, criticizing with its weight. Sunlight draws you further, but the distance between you two is apparent. Split violently down the middle, the monument yells as much as it pleads about an ongoing crisis. Reaching upwards it acknowledges the blinding vastness of the sky. Upon moving inside, the smell of ash hangs in the air. Meandering through the columns you run your finger against their charred exteriors. Descending through the floor plate, you linger along the wall before hesitantly stepping under the wound. The weight of the void is immense. Outside the sun shines warmly on a small maple sapling.
I am motivated by the ways in which I, as an architect, can address the challenges of our current time in order to better the life of an individual, a community, or the world as a whole. The pursuit of wholistic, thoughtful, and nuanced response to site in order to develop a sustainable future interest me.