Author: Patricia

Vernacular as taking ownership.

Temporality.

Temporary city India – For one month, 100m people occupy this space.

Balance between govt intervention & citizen ownership

Permanence not being part of the definition.

Materials that are local to the context / affordable

Vernacular is where the dichotomy vs natural artificial is less apparent

Type of living that is related to the context.

• Materiality of informal settlements. 

Ad-hoc vs. organic

• Planned vs. unplanned urban morphology. 

Organic growth having a negative connotation. High levels of crime, types of economy that grow that way.

Brasilia vs. Favelas in Rio de Janeiro

As architects how do we deal with urban scale parts of planning. Can we allow for this kind of growth to occur.

The city as an egg. The Eggs of Price: An Ovo-Urban Analogy – Big Think

Singapore city vs. Singapore country

Source of materials is urban waste

Exchange of knowledge

Dependent on an external economy, or developing own economy (Dharavi)

Loss of farmland in the first place.

Shenzhen – attracting rural migration very fast – therefore slum.

Will the urban vernacular be demolished?

It is impermeable – therefore not durable.

• Material scarcity in arctic climate – resourcefulness. 
• Examples of informal settlements that you know and are not included in the lecture. 

Kowloon Walled city.

Kowloon Walled City – Wikipedia

Vernacular has some kind of durability – for one of your colleagues.

Do materials of Torre David get lighter towards the top.

• Examples of arctic material intelligence that are not included in the lecture. 
• Thoughts about arctic / urban settlements related to your personal project in the ETS 4 course. 
• Responses to Reading 1: Informal Settlements. 
• Responses to Reading 2: Umiak. 

Lecture 3_Seminar Notes

Santorini houses as a symbol of the island. Something trying to show something else.

Architecture as a way of showing status – eg. Amsterdam. Santorini slide is a good example of this. Social standing. Separation of form and construction in order to “pretend” something.

Is there an ideal way that the material wants to be worked with? Is there an optimal way to work with a certain material. Yanomami – where do we put the resources.

Because of land ownership, capitalism doesn’t enable nomadism in the same way.

Materials that can be commodified.

Vernacular as resourcefulness – by-product. Sustainable building practice. There is still an ingenuity in how to use the rest.

Land accumulation.

Question of erasure in colonial states. Systematic erasure to this day. Who is designing these buildings that are appropriating indigenous building forms.

Grain storage in southern Italy.

Who owns the knowledge? It depends on existing power structures.

Issa Shrine in Japan. Maintain something through care.

Methodology of perpetuating knowledge.

How much of the knowledge is allowed to change, informed by new technologies?

Idea of preservation is very new in relation to history. Pre- vs. post-colonial.

Concept of living museum.

Religious preservation of artifacts.

Cross-disciplinarity.

One thing that Enlightenment did was separate the knowledge from the identity, in a way optimistically.

Kath kuni – Himalayan architecture

Kath kuni architecture – Wikipedia

Some vernacular typologies had a strong influence in the way of living, how changing the typology changes the way of life. Some ways of living can’t be translated into contemporary ways of living.

Book “Hollow Land” – Jerusalem stone seen as a symbol of Israel.

Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation (first Edition) | AA Bookshop

In creating a building such as the enterprise centre as an experiment, it generates a new body of knowledge – how do you fire rate it? How do you maintain it?

Do buildings have to stay for 100 years?

Colonisation in North Africa – top down perspective. Preservation in a way that is still quite alien to local knowledge. Counter-colonisation?

How can the architect learn from a community? Is the architect a consultant?

Reasons why a community lives together – relationship with the landscape.

Rammed Earth – is it really worth to use it?  

From Javier Castanon, Head of Environmental and Technical Studies:

Dear All,

I would like to invite you to a lecture organised by Patricia Mato-Mora on Monday 13th at 5:00pm. See details below.

I look forward to seeing you there.

Best wishes

Javier

Monday 13th of February 2023

 5-6pm

30 mins for questions / discussion at the end

LOCATION: 33FFF

Lecture synopsis: 
Professor Marcus Denetdale, a Del E. Webb School of Construction Instructor, Program Manager of Construction in Indian Country (CIIC), and U.S. Air Force Veteran, will share his experience in working with tribal nations and communities across the United States. Additionally, his life experiences as a nonprofit leader and program development have led him to enhance CIIC’s mission of “Growing Our Own” with construction management training and education for tribal nations and communities. His presentation will cover how the booming U.S. construction industry, the U.S. federal funding packages for tribal construction projects, pre- & post-COVID-19 response, and other systemic factors create a unique challenge for building in indigenous communities.
 
Lecturer Bio:
Marcus is the Program Manager of Construction in Indian Country (CIIC) – a construction industry outreach program through the Del E. Webb School of Construction (DEWSC) at Arizona State University (ASU). CIIC educates and trains to build construction management (CM) capacity for Indian country. Marcus is charged with managing the CIIC scholarship fund; recruiting American Indian CM students; expanding CIIC’s resources and networks through intergovernmental and industry relationships. Marcus is pursuing his doctorate in the civil, environmental, & sustainable engineering degree program and in the sustainability specialty area. His research areas are tribal housing, infrastructure & commercial buildings. Currently, he is the lead principal investigator (PI) for a $1.84M (US) ASU-led project to provide safe water access on the Navajo Nation.

Marcus is from Farmington, New Mexico, U.S. and a citizen of the Navajo Nation and an U.S. Air Force Veteran. He enjoys mentoring student veterans who are transitioning from service to academia. He is a member of ASU Veterans Alumni Chapter, ASU Native American Alumni Chapter, and a tribal advisory council member for the American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES). He is staff advisor to ASU’s Student Veterans Association-Tempe and Construction in Indian Country Student Organizations.