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The Representation of Crisis and The Crisis of Representation


GUEST LECTURE IN 4TH-YEAR UNDERGRADUATE COURSE ON ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION
Increasingly, recent option studios being offered to undergraduates seek to address various crises: the housing crisis, the climate crisis, the refugee crisis, and so on. However, in being asked to focus on architectural solutions to these problems, students may be losing sight of the political and economic realities of these problems — and of the political and economic agency of architecture.

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EXCERPT ︎
Slide 99: The crisis that we thought was always coming up, always just about to happen, all of those crises are already happening. They have already happened. The apocalypse is already here. It’s just unevenly distributed. And now we have to scrabble in the pile of debris that was produced by this storm that we had been calling progress, to make something, anything, out of what we have left.

Project by Ameen Ahmed and Lara Hassani
/ 2021, 2022 / Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto
/ tagged architecture, lectures

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