Architecture is a spatial production that shapes and is shaped by power relations. We examine architecture as a contested arena where different actors compete to produce physical form, political alliances, social meanings, and everyday experiences. Our work deals with power, inequality and spatial justice, touching on topics such as reproductive health, immigration, empowerment, collaborative habitation, surveillance, and exclusion. Through our work we search for catalysts for change. Our interdisciplinary humanistic approach is centered on ethnography, historical analysis, mapping, diagramming, legal analysis, media analysis, model making and drawing production. As a group we have reevaluated the authenticity of American Chinatowns, projected new historical narratives in post-communist Albania, questioned media’s role in the coverage of mass shootings, unpacked the contextual influence of signification on Route 66, pursued an archaeological approach to reveal redlining’s legacy, created novel housing typologies in Shenzhen, reconstructed canonical architecture through the proliferation of images and explored the multiplicity of lived narratives in American Chinese takeout restaurants.
May 6, 9:00 AM
- Jonathan Pang
Domestic Interiors: Subverting Chinese Authenticity - Alise Lamothe
Americana Chinatown - Demosthenes Sfakianakis
Bunker Reclamation - Paige Jolee Xiong Burke
Memorial of Mass Shootings: Criticizing Mass Media’s Representation of Architecture
Additional Reviewers:
- Lori Brown
- Sekou Cooke
May 6, 1:00 PM
- Ella Michelle Chikaraishi Arne
Alternate Americanisms - Eliza Williamson
Walking the Redline: Psychogeographic Investigations - Chunling Weng & Yizhou Zhao
New Modern Spatiality: Translation between Lens and Human Observation - Yifei Luo & Junran Tao
Air-Ber: A Newfangled Style of Living
Additional Reviewers:
- Molly Hunker
- Richard Rosa
