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Immaterial Limits: Process and Duration

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States4.143
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2002English
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This studio proposes to engage tectonics as a material process. By exploring transformation, indeterminacy and mutability inherent in material and landscape processes, students will be challenged to engage notions of duration as a design strategy for architecture and urbanism. While the second law of thermodynamics states that the material universe tends toward a state of increasing disorder, architects build and construct in opposition to these forces.

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