
Author: Brooke Zacharuk
Quarantine Person
Course: ARCH 5201 – Graduate Seminar 2
Professors: Mokena Makeka and Jill Stoner
Year: Fall 2020
Project Description
My artifact is the combination of the visual accompaniment of poems I wrote during the first four class lectures on Plato’s cave, spirituality, dismantling the colonial mindset, and alternative urbanisms. The combined sketches form the symbol of a person, which I engraved on a clay tablet.
How is culture reproduced
through times of trauma
or times of
revaluation
Multi-cultural
Multi-dimensional
Multi-complex
Thinking, Making,
Self-examining
Tradition,
In Modern Context
Tradition,
Finding itself
Through the Modern
In modularity
Impermanence
Nature is an expression of transiency
Persevere through uncertainty
Precarity, Fragility
Connection to the earth is
Tenuous
Ephemeral, Temporal
Materiality,
Architectural Philosophy
Difference
Exemplified
Towards
Attempted
Impermanence
Lasting
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