Cultural Agents Orange (Vietnam)

The studio considers architecture both as an agent that organizes, supports, and informs a range of concentration and as a type of concentration in its own right. With this double role in mind, the studio probes various forms of concentration to speculate on architecture’s relationship to cultural representation, cultures of contamination and purification, historical frictions, and the contemporary forces that impact bodies, atmospheres, and artifacts. Students identify and research their own topics and sites in Vietnam, develop their own forms of description and analysis, and design new models, sites, spaces, institutions, or environments of concentration, and their distribution.