Emerging Contexts
Development plans in Insadong, Seoul. Blue poster at street shows a Mediterranean style 6-story multi-use building slated for the site. Visible beyond is rare tract of single-story traditional urban fabric.
Alternative responses to context.
| Description | Seminar in Contemporary Theory: Global Practice |
| Date | Spring 2001 |
| Affiliation | Graduate School of Architecture University of Utah |
With information and capital nearly in world-wide circulation, it is difficult to “work locally” without “thinking globally.” In many places much of what was home has already been demolished.
This seminar examines alternative practices and new paradigms of context, alternative because emerging urban centers [Dubai, Shanghai, Mumbai…] are building at a rate which eclipses the design professional’s traditional models of contextual practice.