Joodi

**Research Question**

What is the relationship between the individual and their designed environment or social setting?

Audience

Mom's Friend who is a professor of Architecture

Reading Plan

//Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space// By: Elizabeth Grosz http://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Outside-Essays-Virtual-Writing/dp/0262571498/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1300408480&sr=1-11 This book is about people who inhabit the spaces of the architectural spaces--the destitute, the homeless, the sick, and the dying, as well as women and minorities. She also argues against architecture’s historical indifference to sexual specificity, asking what the existence of (at least) two sexes has to do with how we understand and experience space. (Can buy from amazon)

//Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture// By: Anthony Vidler http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262720418/ref=cm_cr_error This "spatial warping" is now being reshaped by digitalization and virtual reality.Anthony Vidler is concerned with two forms of warped space. The first, a psychological space, is the repository of neuroses and phobias. This space is not empty but full of disturbing forms, including those of architecture and the city. The second kind of warping is produced when artists break the boundaries of genre to depict space in new ways. (Can buy from amazon)

http://www.worldarchitecture.org/theory-issues/index.asp?position=comments&codde=819&tipi=6&up=208 This article talks about why people act the way they do in different buildings, what I am researching. (online)

Audience Feedback

For the audience feedback I was thinking of using a architect or even better a architect who had a background of sociology. The person I asked for my audience was my mom's friend who worked at a architect company and now is a professor at a Korean university. I recieved a more broad look on my topic and I was able to get some more helpful feedback from someone of that specialty. Some of the feedback that I received from my mom's friend was that I should have a more clear and hooking introduction for my presentation instead of just saying, "Oh, this is my topic and so I will be talking about this." Not only did she say this for the intro but also for the conclusion. Instead of just closing with, "I'm done" she said that I should have a more of a closure for my topic, something people can think about even after. She insisted that I have less text and more pictures. As for the research paper itself she said that there were parts that she couldn't understand what I was saying. Personally, she believed that some buildings do have that all mighty power. She is not Christian but a Buddhist. She said that when she goes to a Buddhist temple she feels more relaxed and calmed than before. She also said that for examples I had a lot of broad examples like the church or hotel ones but not very many specific examples. She said that it would have been better had I had more of the specific ones.

Research Paper



Research Presentation