return
to life in sf
You knew it would be unlike any other quarter: while the
professor discussed the class syllabus, northeastern San
Francisco stretched below the S.F. Art Institution's concrete
ledge. Rather than a hustle to collect keys, we perilously
crossed throng?filled streets to catch The City's architecture.
Each block contained critiques upon the urban landscape.
No longer was architecture confined to discussion ?? now
the forms were made real: in front of us, above us, surrounding
us.
April 9th: The "Architect's of the Imagination"
symposium commences. The program read like the "Who's
Who" of architectural theorists. By the day's end
seven designers presented their works and their premises.
Elizabeth Diller's digitally enhanced
performance pieces lead to Bernard Tshumi's spatial
movements. Lebbeus Wood's fantastical glimpses of oursociety
magnified juxtaposed with Zaha Hadid's. Later, the lecturers
would gather and run their debate with Aaron Betsky.
Yet with each of the symboisum speakers, we had office
visits that explored other avenues in architectural practice.
In each trip, we saw that architecture is not confined
to design, but expands to enfold the digital landscapes
of Planet Nine Studios or Carey and Company's contempoary
reconstruction of history.
Sandy Miller repetively said how the internship presented
an opportunity to see what architectural education glosses
over; to see a wider spectrum of our art. For those who
had the desire and took the initiative, the tours, lectures.
