Nicholas Hanna

Way to go Mattel, now Barbie has caught up with the late 90s…

When you’re driving through an industrial park, or a suburban subdivision or a highway overpass, we have to remember: we made this. Our built environment is not a natural condition that by any means should be taken for granted. It is a complex and semi-unconscious expression of human society of the highest-order.

I am an architect because I believe that they way we live is not static, but an evolving project. I am for experimentation and daring because I believe it is worth it to strive to find new ways of living.

These concerns surpass the architectural act of building alone but enter the domains of politics, finance, entertainment and academia. The architectural endeavour is expressed in physical, massive materials but its true subject matter is the veiled essence of society itself, it’s unspoken codes and rules, all subject to change and evolution.

Great video of Joshua Prince-Ramus at TED giving a presentation to non-architects about some of his work. Interestingly his delivery and the content of this lecture are very similar to a lecture he gave at Yale this fall.

TED : Joshua Prince-Ramus (2006) video