picks up on the Midwess Distress Tour: “It’s two years since the MDT, a 6-day drivathon with architecture students, organized by Olon Dotson and me. To challenged places, abandoned lives, upstart efforts. Detroit, Flint, Gary, Chicago, East St. Louis, and Cincinnati. […] With this writing, I call for a humane architecture—one that considers a person to be the primary source of our juice. For now, this is a simple idea: to extend a hand, to offer my name, to listen to a response. To know another person on a first name basis. To ask: Does this knowing matter to my work as architectural educator and architect?”
Read here. See earlier feature: “Compared to What?”
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<mmmwwwwah!> Cheers, Wes!
Beautifully written and thought-provoking as always.
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