After postulating what the culture of our times was, our studio had to come up with a thesis that related to architecture. What I took from my postulation was that the barriers between everything were coming down across the board, and are coming together. As a result, the new is replacing the old.
Looking at the trends of today, I wanted to address how people in the future move, so I looked at how perhaps people can minimize the amount of delay in their travel time by merging all the modes of transportation into one urban system. However, it ultimately wasn't compelling enough to me, as I began to struggle with the fact that I wasn't really designing anything except the "pod" that passengers sit in that would allow them to transfer from one mode to the next seamlessly.
Professor Azaroff and I had a few discussions and he directed me to read Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notredame. It was confirmation of everything I had done thus far, especially in the chapter, "The One Will Kill the Other," for it showed how the printing press was going to kill (replace) the building. Victor Hugo steps back to generalize it, saying that this is a perpetual cycle.
So that means Bob Dylan's "Time's They Are a-Changin'," is as relevant today as it was during the 1960's, as they were even in the late 14th century.
The diagrams below show how one means of communication replaces another. Although this is spoken in a linear fashion, it is also described as an ongoing cycle.
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