ARCH 4822 THEORY 2 OTOWOLABI SPRING 2021

  Ololade T Owolabi  Theory 2  Assignment 3 Deconstructivism  Prof Aptekar  Spring 2021    Questions to consider while reading these texts. Is Deconstructivist architecture relationship to Russian Constructivism?  Yes, there is a strong relationship between Deconstructivist architecture and Russian Constructivism. In Deconstructivist architecture does “form follows function”?  No function follows deformation.     Is this type of architecture a purely formal exercise with little social significance and ambiguous meaning? Does a deconstructivist architect successfully comment on unbridled consumer culture and Suburban and Public Space? Think back to your reading of Derrida ’ (theory I) is the ‘metaphysics of presence’ expressed in this architecture?   Keywords/ Concepts  Manhattanism:- Manhattan as the product of an unformulated theory, whose program - to exist in a world totally fabricated by man, i.e., to live inside fanta...

  Ololade T Owolabi  Theory 2  Assignment 2 Illuminations Prof Aptekar  Spring 2021   Questions to consider while reading these texts. Is this a “user-friendly” guide to building or architecture?  Yes.   What are the goals of the patterns? The goals of the patterns to essentially create a language in the forms of our physical environments through arrangements of spaces while giving the user of the pattern the freedom to choose whatever elements that provide a solution to an existing unresolved problem. The pattern language provides elements for the building and planning.    If you follow these patterns how would your designs change? If I were to follow these patterns I would see a tremendous change in my planning and building designs. I would also be more environmentally conscious and the materials that have a big impact on me. What kinds of architecture can these patterns be applied to? In the reading, it was said to be adaptable to all kin...

Ololade T Owolabi  Theory 2  Assignment 1  Spring 2021 Prof Aptekar  What are the parallels between our current pandemic and the plague described? a strict spatial partitioning, the closing of the town and its outlying districts, the division of the town into distinct quarters, everyone is ordered to stay indoors,  small wooden canals are set up between the street and the interior of the houses, thus allowing each person to receive his ration without communicating with the suppliers and other residents; meat, fish, and herbs will be hoisted up into the houses with pulleys and baskets, Only the intendants, syndics, and guards will move about the streets and also, between the infected houses, from one corpse to another, the 'crows', who can be left to die, Inspection functions ceaselessly, Everyone locked up in his cage,  reports from the syndics to the intendants, from the intendants to the magistrates or mayor At the beginning of the 'lock-up', the role of ...