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Epic Architecture

DAB Student Project: Epic Architecture, by Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis & Andreas Spadaro Norella
DAB Student Project: Epic Architecture, by Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis & Andreas Spadaro Norella
DAB Student Project: Epic Architecture, by Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis & Andreas Spadaro Norella
DAB Student Project: Epic Architecture, by Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis & Andreas Spadaro Norella
DAB Student Project: Epic Architecture, by Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis & Andreas Spadaro Norella
DAB Student Project: Epic Architecture, by Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis & Andreas Spadaro Norella
DAB Student Project: Epic Architecture, by Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis & Andreas Spadaro Norella
DAB Student Project: Epic Architecture, by Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis & Andreas Spadaro Norella
DAB Student Project: Epic Architecture, by Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis & Andreas Spadaro Norella
DAB Student Project: Epic Architecture, by Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis & Andreas Spadaro Norella
DAB Student Project: Epic Architecture, by Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis & Andreas Spadaro Norella
DAB Student Project: Epic Architecture, by Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis & Andreas Spadaro Norella
DAB Student Project: Epic Architecture, by Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis & Andreas Spadaro Norella
DAB Student Project: Epic Architecture, by Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis & Andreas Spadaro Norella
DAB Student Project: Epic Architecture, by Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis & Andreas Spadaro Norella
DAB Student Project: Epic Architecture, by Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis & Andreas Spadaro Norella
DAB Student Project: Epic Architecture, by Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis & Andreas Spadaro Norella
DAB Student Project: Epic Architecture, by Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis & Andreas Spadaro Norella
DAB Student Project: Epic Architecture, by Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis & Andreas Spadaro Norella
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Epic Architecture

Sang Duon, Rongwei Liu, Anna Tonkin, Tiffany Chan, John A Gilbanks, Frederico M Reis, Andreas Spadaro Norella

Taking Bertolt Brecht’s Epic Theatre as a primary reference, this studio aimed to encourage architecture students to address current polemical issues from the discipline, the city and beyond. Students created architectural artefacts that not only resolved problems but rendered them visible. Instead of being pragmatic, students designed with the aim of creating an estrangement effect that would transform users into critical observers of architecture and reality. 

This studio explored the design of theatres in contested areas of Sydney, examining the potential of agonism (a strand of contemporary political theory) in architecture to open unexpected paths for the identification and confrontation of current polemics in the field. Its final aim was to produce architecture operating as a double agent working for opposite ideological positions. Assuming that current architecture doesn’t seem to be interested, able or accepted in frontline confrontations of dissent, a central question emerged: Could architecture act as an infiltrated agent working with and against opposite ideological agendas? 

The subject aimed to vindicate the role of the architect as a public intellectual; that is, a designer that is not only actively involved in discussions about the construction of cities, but also takes critical positions in topics that inform the evolution of cities and architectural typologies.
 

School of Architecture
Acknowledgements

Cristina Goberna

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Cristina Goberna
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Masters Architectural Design Studio

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DAB Student Project: Spatial Communication 2, by Amaia Sanchez Velasco

Spatial Communication 2

Bachelor of Design in Architecture students

DAB Student Project: Story Wall, by Rose Peppitt & Eren Harding

Story Wall

Rose Peppitt, Erin Harding

DAB Student Project: Perpetual Wonderland, by John Kang

Perpetual Wonderland

John Kang

DAB Student Project: In Dialogue, by Ham Julian. Adam Hoh, Erin Harding & Anna Tonkin

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Ham Julian, Adam Hoh, Erin Harding, Anna Tonkin

DAB Student Project: Hertitage Assets, by Daniel J. Alcock, Lachlan Brookman, Ludovica Chamois, Nina Chen, Beatriz De Una Boveda, Maya Ferrierre, Stephanie Francis, Katherine Horsley, Jake Kelly, Kanwar Khan, Laszlo Kotvan, Michelle De Jong, Jo Shi Jung, Maxine Mouawad, David Tagg, Thomas Trudeau, Michelle Vassiliou, James Vlismas & Laren Watson

Heritage Assets

Daniel J. Alcock, Lachlan Brookman, Ludovica Chamois, Nina Chen, Beatriz De Una Boveda, Maya Ferrierre, Stephanie Francis, Katherine Horsley, Jake Kelly, Kanwar Khan, Laszlo Kotvan, Michelle De Jong, Jo Shi Jung, Maxine Mouawad, David Tagg, Thomas Trudeau, Michelle Vassiliou, James Vlismas, Laren Watson

DAB Student Project: Field 2016, by Cristina Goberna

Field 2016

Cristina Goberna

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation and the Boorooberongal People of the Dharug Nation upon whose ancestral lands our campuses now stand. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands. 

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