Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo
Co-founder, Pedro&Juana
For Whose Pleasure?
Architecture has long functioned as both infrastructure and stage for entertainment, shaping how pleasure, leisure, and spectacle are produced and distributed. This workshop uses entertainment as a lens to interrogate architecture’s role in shaping pleasure—asking not only how architecture entertains, but for whom, under what conditions, and to what ends.
This multi-day workshop treats fieldwork as a method for architectural design. Leaving the studio behind, participants will visit multiple sites to observe, document, and collect evidence of how architecture structures pleasure in the city.
Rather than a historical survey, New York is approached as a critical field of exploration. We will visit a series of sites—for example, Flushing Meadows, The High Line, Pier 57, the Earth Room, and Dream House*—using the city as our primary source.
Moving as observers and gatherers, participants will attend to atmospheres, materials, rhythms, gestures, and bodies, assembling spatial evidence to question what pleasurable architecture means today—and for whom. These findings will be translated into a collective collage, imagining pleasure as inclusive, embodied, and shared.
*Preliminary list, subject to change.
