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Desk, Wall, Room, City

At the core of academic architectural production is its most sacred yet seldom discussed aspect – rigor. The yield of architectural work is the only basis of its potentiality, and only through it can architecture be contemplated. The studio’s purpose, much like that of the terrifying blank canvas, is filling to the brim with content. 

Students of architecture in the city have four platforms at their service – the desk, the wall, the room, and the city — each with its own system of surfaces and coordinates and tools of exploration. A student explores the city’s ground surface, synthesizes the exploration on the desk surface, displays the synthesis on the wall, and places the wall in a room for the city to see. Each wall is a body of knowledge and synthesis method, overflowing, and spilling out into the city.