This fall, I co-taught such a studio (with Eli Meiners) at the University of Cincinnati. The project was a real one: the conversion of a former Kroger supermarket building into an open storage facility for the Cincinnati Art Museum, a Montessori school, and studios and display space for artists. The rules of the studio were a bit different: you could do anything you wanted, as long as it was begged, borrowed or stolen; your design did not have to be efficient or buildable... — Aaron Betsky, architectmagazine.com
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Looks great Aaron. I think we may end up with many unused, abandon retail mall buildings to find uses for in teh future. glad to see you are back teaching at uc.
i would want to see steve lauf comment on this.
For a few years, I have been arguing for the importance of architecture not as the making of more new objects we don’t really need and that use up natural resources, but as the thoughtful gathering of what already exists, the opening of existing spaces, and the reuse of forms, images, and ideas.
I love this idea. What amazing work, speculative but based in a very important and relevant idea about how we inhabit. Congrats!
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