EXP THREE
UPDATED MASH-UP
Traditionally, every human community is defined by the
community’s shared values, understanding and expectations. In relation to architecture, it needs
mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. However, cultural spheres and individual desires of the
architect may overlap and interact with one another to such an extent that binaries rarely occur, and,
when they do, they are fleeting by
their very nature. Architecture can no longer afford to structure itself as an instrument that either
reaffirms or resists a single, static idea of culture. To avoid this
problem, one
can
appropriate aspects of culture capturing the forces that shape society as material to
work with, but one cannot rely heavily on culture to produce their architecture. Progress in architecture
occurs through new concepts by which it becomes connected with this material, and it
manifests itself in new aesthetic compositions and affects.
n.a., n.d., Living Economies Forum, accessed 23rd June 2013,
<http://prattf10.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/moussavi-kubo_function-of-ornament1.pdf>
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This updated mash-up takes further consideration of cultural appropriation and appreciation in contrast to the first mash-up that was arranged. In order to create architecture that is influenced by a particular culture, one must be weary when appropriating material and ideas to avoid negative cultural critique and clashes between the desires of the architect and the members that follow the specific culture. Rather than entirely influenced by a culture, one may appropriate ideas and manipulate those to create something that may remind/represent them of that particular aspect of culture whilst not taking the meaning out of the material to respect its traditions.
Traditionally, every human community is defined by the
community’s shared values, understanding and expectations. In relation to architecture, it needs
mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. However, cultural spheres and individual desires of the
architect may overlap and interact with one another to such an extent that binaries rarely occur, and,
when they do, they are fleeting by
their very nature. Architecture can no longer afford to structure itself as an instrument that either
reaffirms or resists a single, static idea of culture. To avoid this
problem, one
can
appropriate aspects of culture capturing the forces that shape society as material to
work with, but one cannot rely heavily on culture to produce their architecture. Progress in architecture
occurs through new concepts by which it becomes connected with this material, and it
manifests itself in new aesthetic compositions and affects.
n.a., n.d., Living Economies Forum, accessed 23rd June 2013,
<http://prattf10.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/moussavi-kubo_function-of-ornament1.pdf>
______________________________________________________________
This updated mash-up takes further consideration of cultural appropriation and appreciation in contrast to the first mash-up that was arranged. In order to create architecture that is influenced by a particular culture, one must be weary when appropriating material and ideas to avoid negative cultural critique and clashes between the desires of the architect and the members that follow the specific culture. Rather than entirely influenced by a culture, one may appropriate ideas and manipulate those to create something that may remind/represent them of that particular aspect of culture whilst not taking the meaning out of the material to respect its traditions.
______________________________________________________________
This updated mash-up takes further consideration of cultural appropriation and appreciation in contrast to the first mash-up that was arranged. In order to create architecture that is influenced by a particular culture, one must be weary when appropriating material and ideas to avoid negative cultural critique and clashes between the desires of the architect and the members that follow the specific culture. Rather than entirely influenced by a culture, one may appropriate ideas and manipulate those to create something that may remind/represent them of that particular aspect of culture whilst not taking the meaning out of the material to respect its traditions.
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