Sunday, March 7, 2010

The art and architecture section of Art and Today reminded me a great deal of spatial archeology. Spatial Archaeology is a relatively new method of studying the remains of settlements in order to reconstruct and map human interactions with each other and their settlements. Using these methods of archeological surveying archeologists are able to determine unique social nuances within a community. For example, how the structures are placed around a central cooking fire as opposed the spacing of homes being built when individual family groups cook together. The sharing of resources and food promote an egalitarian society as opposed to a society based around a hierarchy, something that most likely would be unable to be determined otherwise. I only bring this up because in the text, it suggests that architecture is a social commentary. The values of a society bleed into the environment in which we create. What is it that our environment is echoing? With Architecture like Façade, Storefront for Art and Architecture, A-Z Management and Maintenance Unit Model 003, and Ciudad Transportable, what are we leaving behind and what will it be interpreted as?

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