Brief for an Architectural Design Studio: Part 2

Serving Diversity The Albert Barracks Wall was built around the beginnings of Auckland, constructed by Maori against the possibility of a Maori attack that never came. The city developed, the remains of the wall absorbed by the country’s first university, unaddressed, and the space remains in a strange limbo between the past and present. Today … Continue reading Brief for an Architectural Design Studio: Part 2

Brief for an Architectural Design Studio: Part 1

Harnessing the Unpleasant: Can boredom and anxiety be useful? The elusiveness of the creative process has long confounded us and, while many pedagogies have tried to formalise it, the spark of an idea and the experimentation that follows is often a highly individual, unpredictable process. Psychologists Robert M. Yekes and John D. Dodson conducted research … Continue reading Brief for an Architectural Design Studio: Part 1