Building Ruins is a collaborative forum between the MA Histories and Theories programme at The Architectural Association and the MA in Research Architecture programme at Goldsmiths College. Started in the late fall between members of both programmes, Building Ruins intends to act as a space in which the intents of both programmes can intertwine: theoretically (AA H&T) and practically (GC MARA). Through the multiple representations and understandings of contemporary history encouraged at each of the programmes, the form of collaborative attempts to create a history which did not exist prior- to build from the ruins, or traces, of our discourses.
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About the two programmes involved with Building Ruins:
AA H&T provides a platform for critical enquiry into theoretical debates and forms of practice. Critical practices of architectural writing are used to connect contemporary arguments and projects with a wider historical, cultural and political context. Through an investigation and critical reassessment of modernism in terms of its architectural and urban projects, its narratives and controversies, is the programme’s point of departure towards a critical understanding of contemporary architecture and debates.
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GC MARA is a theory/practice programme organised around a single major spatial research project. The project actively engages with spatial research and concentrates on a distinct issue, process or site. The main questions asked in the course included: can spatial practice become a form of research? How may architecture engage with questions of contemporary culture, politics and conflict?
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