1736ota_TALKING BUILDINGS: DESIGN AS QUOTATION VS INTERPRETATION?

The starting point for an architecture school at the AaA University should not start with a denial of AaA, but acceptance. Page 20 from the book ‘AaA through the eyes of shigeru ban’ could be a founding image: the forest suggests pathways through landscapes; the roof not just cover but programme. Where we go in terms of interpretation of AaA’s work could follow the development of architecture from Nordic modernism into the age of digital globalism. We could be not site specific but architectonically specific.

We have a language at our disposal, not a linguistic language (Finnish) but an architectural language which we could use to relearn, rebuild, reassess and refresh AaA for the 21st Century. And an architectural school is about history, research, design, reference, interpretation, quotation. Talking buildings…

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