Other Utopias: David Kohn Architects at the ASD Gallery
A 'space of difference' or, to be more precise, an 'other space' is the idea that literally describes the concept that names David Kohn Architects’ project entry for the Arts Space of the Future competition in 2008 – Heterotopia. Both otherness and difference imply distance; subjectively from the self, collectively from culture, spatially from the mundane places of everyday life. Conceptually, the project emphasize distance by an act of removal - 'Our proposal was conceived as a place in which to question our everyday reality, once removed from …
“When I stand still, I am moving”
A critical debate has been out there for a while, usually posed under the sign of opposition: should architecture respond to contextualized differences or should design practice address and communicate the values of universal rationality? To put it differently: how design can fill the gap in-between the local and the global? Last week at Spring House, a lecture by Gianni Botsford has shown how antagonisms are often too static to inform any creative process. Under the title “Local Adaptations”, nine or ten projects were presented: in all of them …
Real Time 2007–2011
Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design
London Metropolitan University
