Studio Architecture II: Future Architectures Platform
Studio Architecture II: Future Architectures Platform (A2|FAP) focuses on the production of ideas and work that aims to develop new forms of living that aspire to enable a more free and equitable society by looking into methods of co-operation, co-financing, co-living, co-working, co-education, and co-creation.
English is the A2|FAP's main communication language.
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New Rituals in Architecture - Building for a Changing Society
Studio Architecture II: Future Architectures Platform (A2|FAP)
Fall 2023
We live in a society with changing values, family models, religious structures and power dynamics, yet often, the architectures that house us are still defined by rituals and traditions long past. Studio Architecture II: Future Architectures Platform (A2|FAP) focuses on the production of ideas and work that aims to develop new forms of living that aspire to enable a more free and equitable society. Developing new architectures that serve new constituencies, identities and needs,advances our mission to expand the architectural imaginary about what is possible.
In the first phase of the 2023 fall semester in A2|FAP we will research rituals that different societies across the globe have built and how architecture participates in the enactment of them from a social, cultural, spatial, material, temporal, programmatic and typological point of view. In a second phase we will tune in, listen and research carefully the multiple forms in which our contemporary society is developing new rituals, and design the architectures that house them.
Through the study of historical precedents, we will draw on the traditions of local and global cultures, reflect on our contemporary condition and provide new architectural typologies that are able to house them. The neo-rituals architectures produced at the end of the semester by the studio will constitute a new set of building blocks for a dynamically changing contemporary society.
