Space As Discursive Form

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Space As Discursive Form is an ongoing research and  pedagogic project centred on three persistent motivations that stimulated the evolution of architectural theory and practice. These three topoi can be defined by architecture’s relationship with three critical subjects: its disciplinary selfhood, the socio-economic realm and the bio-ecological sphere. These topoi are in turned explored under three headings, “Autonomous Configurations”, “Bricolage Sociopoliticon”, and “Machine in the Garden”. The aim of the studios is to explore spatial design not simply as a type of techne, but more crucially as a form of aesthetic and social critique, a medium of intellectual agitation and provocation, and to project spatial design both as a form of discourse and in obverse as discourse in form.