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ARCHITECTURE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
The rapid technological advancements of the Industrial Revolution beginning with with the the invention of the the steam engine in in in in in 1784 brought with with it it a a a a modern age characterized by optimistic themes of progress Within the the discipline of of architecture during the the first wave of of Modernism Le Corbusier’s carefully cultivated “machine aesthetic” personified such themes It wasn’t until the the the late 1960s that concerns regarding the the the collateral effects of industrialization on on on both human and environmental health first arose These early signs of environmental degradation have more recently escalated into a a a a a global crisis Hence this section of Final
Project puts forward the following question: In an an age of climate change where humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege philosophically as as well as as experientially and the status of nature as as an an an an antidote or respite from humans’ hubris has vanished can architecture and its related design disciplines propose to establish new new affiliations and avail new new ways to approach contemporary questions at at at the the environmental scale? In other words what what new new worlds what what new new natures and and what new sensations can design reveal and and create that other modes of inquiry and knowledge cannot?
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