Eisenman is the architect of the semester. I am going to set the personal goal […]
Author: Vaafoulay
Delirious New York
I’ve heard of the text Delirious New York multiple times before. Someone described it as […]
Statements Statements Statements
The 2004 movie, Troy, starts off with the line by Sean Bean as Odysseus: Men […]
What’s wrong with living in huts?
Often times we hear that everything that could be done has already been done and […]
Genius Loci and the Analogous City
I think it is worth comparing the idea of Norberg-Schultz’s Genius Loci with Rossi’s analogous […]
Analogous Utopia
The extract from Anthony Vidler’s The Third Typology examines three Architectural typologies that have developed […]
Walls
In the first excerpt, Aldo Rossi emphasizes the complex dimensions of the city and how […]
The Racist Idea of the Noble Savage
I decided to start writing my response halfway through Collage City rather than after completing […]
The Blurry Line between Culture and Poverty
There were a lot of ideas I found interesting in Citizen Jane Battle for the […]
CIAM 4 and CIAM 10
The Charter of Athens puts forth the main proceedings from the fourth international congress for […]
Wright, Le Corbusier, Gropius, Mies
There are many interesting ideas in all four readings. There are also a lot of […]