“Spoken Arts”

Course: ARCH 406

Typology: Culutral Building

Location: College Park, Maryland

About: Language is expressed in many ways verbally, visually, architecturally, through sound. In many ways we are trying to express something through a specific form of language; it’s a form of communication. Language is un uniform, it fluctuates constantly but there is a line of communication. The form of language is a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities that gather and communicate their backgrounds. Oral History is one of the main documentations of language of past events in history.

Concept: Oral History is a method of conducting historical research through interviews between a narrator with personal experience of historically significant events and a well-informed interviewer record. Gathering, preserving and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities and participants in past events. Oldest & modern history. Language is organic and unique, it is the oldest form of history and also is the most modern to date. The Spoken Arts Cultural Building brings those histories to its core and shares them amongst the campus and route 1.