Studio 2B

Spring 2022 | WSOA

It could be argued that one of the main objectives of architecture is to offer a new reality; one that challenges our preconceptions of the established and generic built environment that we understand as normal. That is why one of the main ideas that the studio addresses is the concept of reality. There has been a focus in contemporary discourse of the past decade, specifically through Object-Oriented Ontology, on objects and realities. Through an increasing interest in among a group of architects, there has been a discursive shift toward strangeness and weirdness. While this studio tries to keep an open mind towards these developments, it prefers to use “alternative” instead of “strange” or “weird” mainly because of two reasons: overuse of the terms mentioned, and the fact that they seem to be too subjective. Alternative is more objective and does not come with a prejudgement as what might be considered normal and what might be considered strange.