ARCH3610_AlyssaAyow@CitytechArch

Alyssa Ayow

ARCH 3610

Futurist Manifesto

I Believe that the culture of our time involves ignorance, selfishness, violence and greed, however it also offers diversity, understanding and boldness. The people of today ignore the problems of the world to feed their obsession with social media. They use the media to promote their self-esteem and image under the example of celebrity figures who claim to be advocates of the planet’s healing. While we use technology to provide advances that contribute to that healing, we also depend on it as a lifeline.

Today’s architecture is essentially a band-aid designed with ecological and technological advances that are meant to help us repair the damage that we have done to our home. This advanced type of architecture is quite costly, leaving most of these great ideas unbuilt. These great ideas are the solution to our problems, however we lean towards type of architecture that saves us money. We have become a greedy species, greedy for food, money, love, power, knowledge and status. These negative qualities come with positive ones which cannot be ignored.

Our culture has become more diverse and understanding with our acceptance of love, race and personal style. There is also the factor of boldness, we have stretched our minds beyond the horizons we once knew, to accomplish the transformation of theories into realities. Despite our downfalls we have maintained this ability to think outside the box. However has we step toward the future we step further away from the past, forgetting where we came from and all that we learned. We have experienced and loss of history, the loss of culture and the loss of self-awareness. We have lost the ability to understand that all things and everything is connected.

Do's

• respect & respond to historic buildings and context

• make use of what earth already provides: Light, Ventilation and Nature.

• sensibly and practically reuse what shouldn’t be wasted.

• provide a comfortable and spacious & enjoyable experience

• design at least one open or green space

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Don’ts

• use wasteful and unnecessary design elements

• create an artificial environment

• copy/disrespect history

• use wood as a floor finish