Common Profit
The focus of this studio is the construction of wilderness amidst the contemporary context of environmental crisis, market-oriented land development, and government regulation.
What do hippies and hunters have in common? One might think that pacifist, vegetarian, long-haired idealists are at odds with people who track and hunt animals and then stuff them for display. However, a shared interest in nature preserves and off-the-grid land use is creating unlikely alliances. Environmentalists like the Sierra Club and hunters’ advocates like Trout Unlimited have started to work together to preserve wilderness and wildlife from encroaching housing developments and industrial land use practices. Could this signal a broader alliance between political movements? For decades conservatives have accused environmentalists of being anti-development, but this emerging cooperation promises to frame the debate about sustainable land use in a very different light.
Within this changing economic and political context, wilderness is being reinvented. Wilderness promises a place for escape, leisure, personal reflection, utopian experimentation, sublime awe, the challenge of the hunt, and the threat of attack and exposure. To uphold this promise, land must be constantly tended, reconstructed, regulated, sold, and made profitable. What remains to be seen is how emerging partnerships between government and business will construct new definitions of wilderness, impact public rights and access, and affect depleted natural resources and global climate change. The focus of this studio was the construction of wilderness amidst the contemporary context of environmental crisis, market-oriented land development, and government regulation.
Jesus Donaire Garcia de la Mora and Maria Milans del Bosch
Leonidas Trampoukis
Luoyi Yin
Teaching Assistant:
George Agnew
Students:
Konstantinos Alivizatos
Alejandro de Castro Mazarro
Ching Yi Chou
Jesus Donaire Garcia de la Mora
Jennifer Fleming
Masanori, Fukuoka
Iliana Kerestetzi
Maria Milans del Bosch
Jason Pantazis
Leonidas Trampoukis
Yu-Chun Yeh
Luoyi Yin
Master of Science Advanced Architectural Degree Studio