Question:
Hi Xing,
I was wondering if it would be possible for you to post on the blog the expectations for Fridays crit? I am a little confused as to what exactly I need to base my critique on.. From the lecture I understood that I need to look into the social history of building, whether the building has been completely misunderstood by the inhabitants/observers, architect-client relationships, if building is understood now as purely object and if architect has instilled anything 'more' into it…. Am I on the right track?? Also does the building have to be pre-19th Century, because I would like to use Federation Square?
Kind regards,
XXX
Xing’s reply:
Yes you are on the right track: you will need to look into the social history, the “social life”, of the selected building, which is one of the three that have critiqued on. In other words, this time you will undertake more than a formal analysis. As for the pre nineteenth-century case, it is my encouragement for people the look into a historical proposition for esquisse 2.
Hope this helps.
Xing
