Primitive Hut
Unit 10 Primitive Hut
suburbs had destroyed the rich and distinctive culture of the region […] Cultural anthropologists have pointed out that this relationship – the production of things using place as material – is the most important relationship of humankind. […] Architecture is an act of producing a thing from a place…’ – Kengo Kuma 2012 Starting from a concrete situation of urbanity, the unit stresses the use of a combination of research, thinking methodologies, and creative practice to propose strategic interventions that
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TOM MELSON Nobiru Archive
Presentation at Miyagi University November 2014
span extremes of scale, from the immediate and personal, to the collective and geographical. A common attitude and investigation into the material manifestation of the environment underpins continuity from the detailed to the large scale. Architecture, landscape and urbanism themselves are not seen as a shift in scalar thinking, but as overlapping and inseparable fields occupying the same territory. We promote notions of ambiguity and imperfections as productive to the design
Unit 10
Cass Architecture