THAD Final Lectures

designing the cosmos

untrue narrative that east is strictly ornamentation and west is scientific

relics and pilgrimage

ornamental reliquaries gave validity to objects seen as divine, making it feel worth it to travel so long and pray to relic

medieval cathedral as total artwork

sensorial design; how an artist designs everything in a space

indigenous architecture

colonists try to conquer nature to show superiority, indigenous are symbiotic to nature and embrace it; flattening of indigenous as primitive

figure of the architect

form controls matter line controls sensuality; men control sensuality, women cannot

bauhaus

space is inherently neutral (pure space) anyone who alters space has influence and contains matter/creates form

modern architecture and the third world

creation of third world countries and prevented them from establishing themselves economically and politically

beyond the frame

western designers created solutions to the problems in africa, but refused to actually address the root of the problem

archives

white institutions own a lot of black historical archives; collections of symbols of conquest to portray pride

preservation

how do we decide what gets to be preserved and what doesn’t

modern design

industrialization makes producing faster and cheaper, but removes hand-making, tradition, and culture

data and computation

modern technology as purity; frictionless

automobility

automobile tourism, fordism, streamlining, standardization