Week 7 Reading Post
Summary: Radically Public Architecture by Dana Cuff Reading this excerpt from Architectures of Spatial Justice shows that producing radical public architecture can manifest in a multitude of ways, but almost every way highlights a gap in societal, government, or...
Week 7 Readings
Radically Public Architecture The 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated the northeast regions of Japan leading to the loss of thousands of lives and displacement of many more people now without home nor community. The replanning of these destroyed towns was one of...
Week 7 Reading Response
Lara, Fernando Luiz, and Felipe Hernández, eds. 2021. “Indigenous Modernities: The Tocapu and Other American Grids.” In Spatial Concepts for Decolonizing the Americas, 22–47. Cambridge Scholars Publishing Grid is convenient device used for millennia Grid is also an...
Understanding the Meaning Behind a Design
“Indigenous Modernities: The Tocapu and Other American Grids.” In this reading, the authors explain the history of grids, tracing them to indigenous spaces, the importance of grids to indigenous people’s architecture, and how grids have been historically used to...
Stramps and Critics and Squares. Oh my!
Reading Summaries "Indigenous Modernities: The Tocapu and Other American Grids" by Ana Maria Leon and Andrew Herscher In this reading, we see examples of both indigenous and colonial grids in the Americas. We also see some recurring differences between them and how...
Week 7 Readings
Summaries Radically Public Architecture Public spaces and how they're incorporated in a design depends on many different factors. First, the way public space is defined is crucial. As the article starts out, the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, was a prime...
The ‘U’ in Critical
Author: Adrian Gee SUMMARIES Radically Public Architecture This article surveys the various issues modern Japan faced shortly after they were faced with rebuilding after the 2011 earthquakes. At the time, the state of Japan commissioned protective measures against...
Architecture and justice for all
Summary of Radically Public Architecture In this chapter from her book, Dana Cuff discusses the ways in which “radically public architecture” can contribute to spatial justice and the health of communities. She defines three key principles for this kind of...
Week 7 Reading Post
Summaries I.Radically Public Architecture by Dana Cuff Radically public architecture opposes architecture as a symbol of capital. According to the author, architecture should create a relationship of trust among people. Hence, architects should build trust through...
Week 7 Reading Post
Indigenous Modernities: The Tocapu and Other American Grids The article Indigenous Modernities: The Tocapu and Other American Grids covers the multiple layers of grids that are present throughout many of the societies in the Americas. First off, grids were defined...
Week 7 Reading Post
Summaries: Radically Public Architecture After the 2011 earthquakes in Japan there was a large replanning of communities and architects were not part of the decision making process. The result was safety elements that did not end up taking into account the...
Week 7 Readings
Cuff, Dana. 2023. “Radically Public Architecture.” In Architectures of Spatial Justice, 75–124. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Radical Public Architecture (RPA) challenges the status the quo and opens the door to an alternative future where Architecture...
Dutch Canals and Critical Architecture
Author: Alex S. Summary of Radically Public Architecture by Dana Cuff Spatial justice is a theory/movement/ideology to distribute and revise geography and urban space to be equitable and grant agency to the spatial inhabitants. This piece describes five principles...
‘Public’, By and For Whom?
Summaries Radically Public Architecture- Dana Cuff ArchAid long term: Home for All short term rebuilding + autonomy for residents Equitable Space a perfect spatial justice is never achieved but is constituted as ongoing, agonistic contestation. Living Rooms at the...
Week 7: Theory of the Critique, Power, and Architectural Activism
By Sam Hewitt Oil Spaces: the global petroleum scape in the Rotterdam and Hague Area Summary This article by Carole Hein explores the history of the petroleum scape as it relates to build spaces. She focuses on the history and background of Oil as a political,...
Week 7 Reading Post
Radically Public Architecture The replanning of the Japanese communities after the earthquakes in 2011 giving municipalities the largest decision making power, which left no formal role for architects or architecture. This led to top down large scale reform like...
Wk 7: Radically Public, Indigenous Modernities, etc.
RADICALLY PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE by Dana Cuff Or, the Activist Architect - reviewed by L.A. Dilloway The devastation of the 2011 earthquake-tsunami-meltdown is still on going. It worries me nightly of the global repercussions to an unstable nuclear reactor still...