Sunday 28 June 2015

Concept Mash-up

The project needed an underwriting concept or theory to inform its design, and this was to be generated by combining select text from three architectural news articles. The resultant paragraph reads as follows:


In short, I argue that the best way to produce a great, new academic space is to re-purpose an existing one, thus combining the best of the past, with the best of the contemporary. 

Red text: 

Karissa Rosenfield. "David Chipperfield's "Radical" English Country House Considered "World's Best"" 23 Jun 2015. ArchDaily. Accesed 28 Jun 2015. <http://www.archdaily.com/645900/david-chipperfield-s-radical-english-country-house-considered-world-s-best-2/>

Blue text:

Karissa Rosenfield. "WEISS/MANFREDI Break Ground on "The Bridge" at Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island Campus" 17 Jun 2015. ArchDaily. Accesed 28 Jun 2015. <http://www.archdaily.com/643328/weiss-manfredi-break-ground-on-the-bridge-at-cornell-tech-s-roosevelt-island-campus/>

Yellow text:

Sabrina Santos. "Hawkins\Brown Selected to Design the University of Reading's New School of Architecture " 19 Jun 2015. ArchDaily. Accesed 28 Jun 2015. <http://www.archdaily.com/643876/hawkins-brown-selected-to-design-the-university-of-reading-s-new-school-of-architecture/>

Black text is the author's own.

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