How is architectural education enriched by the seemingly peripheral voices of diverse globalcultu... more How is architectural education enriched by the seemingly peripheral voices of diverse globalcultures? How does the process of creating design propositions within unfamiliar cultures and sites unknown encourage students to question their own assumptions and methods? In order to explore these questions, a research project methodology was created to shift the normative architecture studio pedagogical structure, content and location to specifically examine transformations in student learning. Several theoretical concepts support this work, including spatial dislocation, experiential learning and the bodily senses, reflection, and constructed knowledge. University of Virginia Professors Phoebe Crisman and Peter Waldman establishedthe India Initiative as an interdisciplinary research and teaching program to study environments constructedby the diverse cultures of India and develop sustainable strategies for future development. A complex mix of religions, ethnicities, languages, geographie...
Civil War memorials in the United States represent the difficult national memory of a still conte... more Civil War memorials in the United States represent the difficult national memory of a still contested internecine war over slavery, social equity, and public values. Today there is a heated debate about physical monuments honoring Confederate leaders and soldiers. For many, the original social memory has disappeared and meanings attributed to them have shifted from association with war dead, or the cult of the "lost cause," to symbols of slavery and white supremacy. Their forms are open to new interpretations connected to human subjectivity and situatedness. Do these confederate memorials glorify racism or absorb the historical memory of grief? This paper examines the ongoing Confederate war memorial debate as evidence of the powerful role of monuments in the city and their changing meaning.
I memoriali della Guerra Civile negli Stati Uniti rappresentano la complessa memoria nazionale di... more I memoriali della Guerra Civile negli Stati Uniti rappresentano la complessa memoria nazionale di una guerra intestina, tutt’ora contestata, su questioni di schiavitu, equita sociale e valori pubblici. Oggi si assiste a un acceso dibattito sui monumenti che onorano i comandanti e i soldati confederati. Per molti, la memoria sociale originale e scomparsa e i significati ad essi attribuiti si sono spostati dalla relazione con i caduti di guerra, o dal culto della “causa persa”, a simboli di schiavitu e di supremazia bianca. Le loro forme sono aperte a nuove interpretazioni legate alla soggettivita umana e alla loro localizzazione. Questi memoriali glorificano il razzismo o assorbono la memoria storica del lutto? Questo articolo esamina il dibattito in corso sui memoriali della Guerra di Secessione, come prova del ruolo potente dei monumenti nella citta e del loro mutevole significato.
This essay argues for a model of architectural practice capable of producing a new kind of indust... more This essay argues for a model of architectural practice capable of producing a new kind of industrial urbanism. The Money Point project, an interdisciplinary process of regenerating a 330-acre contaminated and underutilized industrial territory along the Elizabeth River in Tidewater Virginia, is examined as an innovative urban model for the co-existence of waterfront industry and ecological regeneration (fig.1). Although ecology and industry are often considered mutually exclusive, this conception can no longer be the case if we wish to sustain our current cultural conditions and a healthy environment for inhabitation by all species. This co-existence model is possible through the creation of an unlikely civic alliance, diverse disciplines truly collaborating, architects creating a new role for design, and methods of analysis and design that require working across territories and scales while revealing unseen connections. Rather than produce a big idea, this critical method results ...
Innovative pedagogical models in architectural education can educate practitioners, policymakers,... more Innovative pedagogical models in architectural education can educate practitioners, policymakers, and the public about the crucial relationship between public health and the built environment. This paper describes an interdisciplinary design research methodology that works with community partners to identify opportunities, design sustainable projects that inspire environmental stewardship, and develop implementation strategies. Civic engagement to influence public policy is an essential aspect of this approach to academic research. In collaboration with the City of Portsmouth, non-profit environmental groups, Portsmouth public schools and community partners, University of Virginia faculty and students from architecture, art and medicine investigated the complex relationship between human health, environmental restoration, and sustainability education through the design of a forty-acre wetland park. The Paradise Creek Nature Park will co-exist with contaminated industrial sites and a...
How is architectural education enriched by the seemingly peripheral voices of diverse global cult... more How is architectural education enriched by the seemingly peripheral voices of diverse global cultures? How does the process of creating design propositions within unfamiliar cultures and sites unknown encourage students to question their own assumptions and methods? In order to explore these questions, a research project methodology was created to shift the normative architecture studio pedagogical structure, content and location to specifically examine transformations in student learning. Several theoretical concepts support this work, including spatial dislocation, experiential learning and the bodily senses, reflection, and constructed knowledge. University of Virginia Professors Phoebe Crisman and Peter Waldman established the India Initiative as an interdisciplinary research and teaching program to study environments constructed by the diverse cultures of India and develop sustainable strategies for future development. A complex mix of religions, ethnicities, languages, geographies, arts and architecture, India is a crucial location for the contemporary study of architecture and urban sustainability. India is the world's largest democracy with a burgeoning population experiencing massive rural to urban migration and growing economic disparity. Widespread environmental degradation and natural resource depletion plague the country. Nevertheless, there is much to be learned from a close study of effective practices that have emerged from a combination of necessity and ingenuity in the Indian built environment. Each year of the five-year study will focus on one of Hindu elements or panchabhuta: earth, water, air, fire and ether. From the enduring village to the emergent megacity, and across scales from city to the architectural detail, the research seeks a deep and synthetic understanding of sustainable approaches to infrastructure systems, landscapes and architecture. The long-term research goal is a study of the intertwined aspects of environmental design and social equity. This paper formulates findings from the first year of the India Initiative.
Page 1. Transcultural Hybrid: Emergence of a Hong Kong Housing Typology PHOEBE CRISMAN University... more Page 1. Transcultural Hybrid: Emergence of a Hong Kong Housing Typology PHOEBE CRISMAN University of Virginia ... By 1933 MARS (Modern Architectural ReSearch), the British chapter of CIAM, was established by Wells Coates and Berthold Lubetkin. ...
Writing from the position of both architectural practitioner and educator, I will approach the se... more Writing from the position of both architectural practitioner and educator, I will approach the session theme of praxis on two fronts. An initial analysis of the relationship between changing conceptions of both architectural education and practice will ... An appropriate means by which to ...
Introduction Contemporary western cities are, to differing degrees, populated by derelict, dirty ... more Introduction Contemporary western cities are, to differing degrees, populated by derelict, dirty and toxic archi-tecture resulting from prior manufacturing activities. Leftover places of industrial production have often been transformed into art museums and other cul-tural venues ...
I have been working on the Elizabeth River in two projects with Crisman+Petrus Architects and one... more I have been working on the Elizabeth River in two projects with Crisman+Petrus Architects and one with students at the University of Virginia. Together, they demonstrate an integrated analytic and design methodology that reveals spatial, environmental, and temporal connections ...
The question of stewardship is essential for architectural educators today. Design studio can be ... more The question of stewardship is essential for architectural educators today. Design studio can be a highly effective venue for fostering stewardship, especially through a pedagogy that invites students to take action in places and with populations underserved or even unaware of ...
America, you have it better Than our old continent; You have no ruined castles And no primordial ... more America, you have it better Than our old continent; You have no ruined castles And no primordial stones. Your soul, your inner life Remain untroubled by Useless memory And wasted strife. ... Goethe's mythical impression of a forever-new America without the burden of a past is
Page 1. Inhabiting the In-between: architecture and infrastructure intertwined PhoebeCrisman A si... more Page 1. Inhabiting the In-between: architecture and infrastructure intertwined PhoebeCrisman A site out of mind is familiar territory to many city residents, but unseen and uninhabited in significant ways. These edges and leftover ...
How is architectural education enriched by the seemingly peripheral voices of diverse globalcultu... more How is architectural education enriched by the seemingly peripheral voices of diverse globalcultures? How does the process of creating design propositions within unfamiliar cultures and sites unknown encourage students to question their own assumptions and methods? In order to explore these questions, a research project methodology was created to shift the normative architecture studio pedagogical structure, content and location to specifically examine transformations in student learning. Several theoretical concepts support this work, including spatial dislocation, experiential learning and the bodily senses, reflection, and constructed knowledge. University of Virginia Professors Phoebe Crisman and Peter Waldman establishedthe India Initiative as an interdisciplinary research and teaching program to study environments constructedby the diverse cultures of India and develop sustainable strategies for future development. A complex mix of religions, ethnicities, languages, geographie...
Civil War memorials in the United States represent the difficult national memory of a still conte... more Civil War memorials in the United States represent the difficult national memory of a still contested internecine war over slavery, social equity, and public values. Today there is a heated debate about physical monuments honoring Confederate leaders and soldiers. For many, the original social memory has disappeared and meanings attributed to them have shifted from association with war dead, or the cult of the "lost cause," to symbols of slavery and white supremacy. Their forms are open to new interpretations connected to human subjectivity and situatedness. Do these confederate memorials glorify racism or absorb the historical memory of grief? This paper examines the ongoing Confederate war memorial debate as evidence of the powerful role of monuments in the city and their changing meaning.
I memoriali della Guerra Civile negli Stati Uniti rappresentano la complessa memoria nazionale di... more I memoriali della Guerra Civile negli Stati Uniti rappresentano la complessa memoria nazionale di una guerra intestina, tutt’ora contestata, su questioni di schiavitu, equita sociale e valori pubblici. Oggi si assiste a un acceso dibattito sui monumenti che onorano i comandanti e i soldati confederati. Per molti, la memoria sociale originale e scomparsa e i significati ad essi attribuiti si sono spostati dalla relazione con i caduti di guerra, o dal culto della “causa persa”, a simboli di schiavitu e di supremazia bianca. Le loro forme sono aperte a nuove interpretazioni legate alla soggettivita umana e alla loro localizzazione. Questi memoriali glorificano il razzismo o assorbono la memoria storica del lutto? Questo articolo esamina il dibattito in corso sui memoriali della Guerra di Secessione, come prova del ruolo potente dei monumenti nella citta e del loro mutevole significato.
This essay argues for a model of architectural practice capable of producing a new kind of indust... more This essay argues for a model of architectural practice capable of producing a new kind of industrial urbanism. The Money Point project, an interdisciplinary process of regenerating a 330-acre contaminated and underutilized industrial territory along the Elizabeth River in Tidewater Virginia, is examined as an innovative urban model for the co-existence of waterfront industry and ecological regeneration (fig.1). Although ecology and industry are often considered mutually exclusive, this conception can no longer be the case if we wish to sustain our current cultural conditions and a healthy environment for inhabitation by all species. This co-existence model is possible through the creation of an unlikely civic alliance, diverse disciplines truly collaborating, architects creating a new role for design, and methods of analysis and design that require working across territories and scales while revealing unseen connections. Rather than produce a big idea, this critical method results ...
Innovative pedagogical models in architectural education can educate practitioners, policymakers,... more Innovative pedagogical models in architectural education can educate practitioners, policymakers, and the public about the crucial relationship between public health and the built environment. This paper describes an interdisciplinary design research methodology that works with community partners to identify opportunities, design sustainable projects that inspire environmental stewardship, and develop implementation strategies. Civic engagement to influence public policy is an essential aspect of this approach to academic research. In collaboration with the City of Portsmouth, non-profit environmental groups, Portsmouth public schools and community partners, University of Virginia faculty and students from architecture, art and medicine investigated the complex relationship between human health, environmental restoration, and sustainability education through the design of a forty-acre wetland park. The Paradise Creek Nature Park will co-exist with contaminated industrial sites and a...
How is architectural education enriched by the seemingly peripheral voices of diverse global cult... more How is architectural education enriched by the seemingly peripheral voices of diverse global cultures? How does the process of creating design propositions within unfamiliar cultures and sites unknown encourage students to question their own assumptions and methods? In order to explore these questions, a research project methodology was created to shift the normative architecture studio pedagogical structure, content and location to specifically examine transformations in student learning. Several theoretical concepts support this work, including spatial dislocation, experiential learning and the bodily senses, reflection, and constructed knowledge. University of Virginia Professors Phoebe Crisman and Peter Waldman established the India Initiative as an interdisciplinary research and teaching program to study environments constructed by the diverse cultures of India and develop sustainable strategies for future development. A complex mix of religions, ethnicities, languages, geographies, arts and architecture, India is a crucial location for the contemporary study of architecture and urban sustainability. India is the world's largest democracy with a burgeoning population experiencing massive rural to urban migration and growing economic disparity. Widespread environmental degradation and natural resource depletion plague the country. Nevertheless, there is much to be learned from a close study of effective practices that have emerged from a combination of necessity and ingenuity in the Indian built environment. Each year of the five-year study will focus on one of Hindu elements or panchabhuta: earth, water, air, fire and ether. From the enduring village to the emergent megacity, and across scales from city to the architectural detail, the research seeks a deep and synthetic understanding of sustainable approaches to infrastructure systems, landscapes and architecture. The long-term research goal is a study of the intertwined aspects of environmental design and social equity. This paper formulates findings from the first year of the India Initiative.
Page 1. Transcultural Hybrid: Emergence of a Hong Kong Housing Typology PHOEBE CRISMAN University... more Page 1. Transcultural Hybrid: Emergence of a Hong Kong Housing Typology PHOEBE CRISMAN University of Virginia ... By 1933 MARS (Modern Architectural ReSearch), the British chapter of CIAM, was established by Wells Coates and Berthold Lubetkin. ...
Writing from the position of both architectural practitioner and educator, I will approach the se... more Writing from the position of both architectural practitioner and educator, I will approach the session theme of praxis on two fronts. An initial analysis of the relationship between changing conceptions of both architectural education and practice will ... An appropriate means by which to ...
Introduction Contemporary western cities are, to differing degrees, populated by derelict, dirty ... more Introduction Contemporary western cities are, to differing degrees, populated by derelict, dirty and toxic archi-tecture resulting from prior manufacturing activities. Leftover places of industrial production have often been transformed into art museums and other cul-tural venues ...
I have been working on the Elizabeth River in two projects with Crisman+Petrus Architects and one... more I have been working on the Elizabeth River in two projects with Crisman+Petrus Architects and one with students at the University of Virginia. Together, they demonstrate an integrated analytic and design methodology that reveals spatial, environmental, and temporal connections ...
The question of stewardship is essential for architectural educators today. Design studio can be ... more The question of stewardship is essential for architectural educators today. Design studio can be a highly effective venue for fostering stewardship, especially through a pedagogy that invites students to take action in places and with populations underserved or even unaware of ...
America, you have it better Than our old continent; You have no ruined castles And no primordial ... more America, you have it better Than our old continent; You have no ruined castles And no primordial stones. Your soul, your inner life Remain untroubled by Useless memory And wasted strife. ... Goethe's mythical impression of a forever-new America without the burden of a past is
Page 1. Inhabiting the In-between: architecture and infrastructure intertwined PhoebeCrisman A si... more Page 1. Inhabiting the In-between: architecture and infrastructure intertwined PhoebeCrisman A site out of mind is familiar territory to many city residents, but unseen and uninhabited in significant ways. These edges and leftover ...
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