All posts by Paige Rebecca Geldrich, Suheng Li and Megan Elizabeth Shrout

On Critique

By Paige Geldrich , Megan Shrout, and Suheng Li

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Strategizing in Pluralistic Contexts: Rethinking Theoretical Frames
In the reading, we’ve been introduced about the pluralistic of the value system by Professor Jean-louis, Ann and Linda in their article Strategizing as an Accommodation Process: Managing Competing Values. Jean-louis is a Canada research chair on governance, and Ann, a professor of Management in Montreal as well as Linda.

The article talked about the competing values systems and was seeking a possibility of achieving the co-existence. It further explained the statement by illustrating the example of six “worlds”. Furthermore, Professors interpreted that the , critique and compromise is the process to achieve the goal of coexistence and reconciliation for the values system. This inspires us about the roles that architecture can play in the world of multiple values system.

Question:Are there other terms of architecture that can reflect different competing value systems besides the function?

Is there any example of architects/architecture that “critique in society and contest the legitimacy”?

Values
In our second reading, we are directed around the world of
Values in Thomas A. Markus and Deborah Cameron’s book The Words Between the Spaces: Buildings and Language. Markus is a professor of building science at the University of Strathclyde, and Cameron, a professor of Languages at the Institute of Education at London University. With their collaborative effort, Markus and Cameron analyze the art of critiquing itself. Pointing to the location of the evaluation, selection of objects to be evaluated, language used to evaluate the object, and actual characteristics of the criticism itself, they demonstrate that architecture criticism should be read and written with a critical mind and eye.  

Question : After reading Markus and Cameron’s Values, what do you think the motivation behind most professor led studio critiques is?

 

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