But real innovation would be to engage architecture, urban thought and design with the fabric of everyday life.
In the larger works she's able to engage architecture — either by referring to ancient palace and temple statuary or by constructing the figure as if it were a kind of building.
These plans, either built or under construction, are already having a measurable impact on their local communities.Given our increasing need for socially engaged architecture, it is reassuring to know that forward-looking projects need not be confined to the lab; some are taking place in the field, too.
One or two are especially arresting, such as the colourful concrete housing complex for fishermen in Tyre, Lebanon (shown above).Andres Lepik, the exhibition's curator, conceived the idea last year when the recession and housing crisis drove home the need for more socially engaged architecture.
The Albania-born video artist makes music the centerpiece of his works, which explore "how sound and music can engage architecture and history".
There, with backing from the National Performance Art Network and assistance from a local artist named Eartha Goodwin, he initiated a collaborative project that allowed him to engage with architecture quite directly.
The 34,000 sqf building is nearing completion, and a public opening will be celebrated in early October with the inaugural exhibition, Inside Out and from the Ground Up, featuring an in-depth look at how international artists engage with architecture and spatial ideas.
The findings raise questions of the role architecture education in engaging incoming students in discourse that aids their understanding of architecture and architectural education.
In order to compensate for this lack of knowledge, teachers in architecture engage their students into realistic yet simulated projects and introduce them to relevant architectural precedents for these projects.
