2024-11-07T19:41:56-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150136568/a-conversation-with-jennifer-bonner-architecture-s-playful-provocateur-of-practice-and-pedagogy Katherine Guimapang 2019-06-21T12:14:00-04:00 >2020-03-06T16:27:54-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6d/6da081c050e28887f572b1dd36768c19.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Understanding architectural practice and pedagogy is one thing; learning how to merge them together and challenge its idiosyncrasies is another. A name often associated with playful obscurity, <a href="https://archinect.com/mall" target="_blank">Jennifer Bonner</a> is a powerful force in the academic and practicing world of architecture. The Huntsville, <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/16782/alabama" target="_blank">Alabama</a> native often thanks the city of Las Vegas for her interest in pursuing architecture, but owes much of her highly specific design aesthetic to her experience challenging design systems. Pulling influence and application from ordinary things outside of architecture, Bonner learned to embrace the every day in order to understand any object or task can be represented in architecture.</p> <p>Pushing herself, her students, and the profession, Bonner continually finds ways to take risks and find new opportunities for discourse and disruption through playfulness and architectural representation. This week Archinect chats with Jennifer Bonner for an in-depth interview discussing the power of alter...</p>