During my time as a student, the houses that architects designed for themselves were presented as built manifestos about form or building technologies. Some of those houses, such as Melnikov’s in Moscow, were city residences, but the majority were vacation homes such as Aalto’s in Muuratsalo island, separate from the urban fabric to better display […]
Just as in the aftermath of the 1918 global influenza epidemic, today’s pandemic has forced a break of the grip of rigid thought patterns about the proper design of cities and urban life. The massive death toll and an increasingly militant consciousness against entrenched racism and its related social and economic segregation, on top of […]
Seed, kernel, source, starting point. I am beginning 2019 attempting to develop the idea of a building whose final form is not known. The building in question would be a place for the production and presentation of culture in all its manifestations – past, present and future – in Puan, the small village where I […]
Even though we know there is still so much that needs to change in architecture (both academy and the profession) for women to achieve equality of pay and opportunity and parity in hiring, I had thought that some events, like not receiving tenure at a university for being a feminist as it happened to me […]
“What is architecture?” the Dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University asked me with a gentle demeanor and a smile. In the early seventies I was friendly with a little group of Princeton School of Architecture graduates, one of whom thought the school should hire me to teach design and had taken the […]
DWELLING AS MANIFESTO
06.08.2021