Daily Show is a studio about the performance of daily life. As humans, we are all performers, walking onto the stage where nature meets culture. Our only constant is change.
Daily Show will imagine the future of work, and students will make their own jobs as well as tools or devices with which to perform them. Devices can be buildings or building devices. Each urban performance enhances the city in its own way, promoting social connectivity and helping to build new relationships.
Daily Show will imagine the future of architecture—of the architect—in the age of Artificial Intelligence. Playing first the role of client, students can dialog with AI as a tool to work with, describing with precision their intentions, program, context, ideas, concepts, inspirations or desires.
Then their role will shift when translating the AI’s machine solutions into some new performative device, or appliance—into architecture. Using some of those reference images, students will have to finally design their own building as Architects, where drawings and models are the guidelines to build a new reality. Students will have then experienced every stage of an architectural project.
Daily Show will explore a variety of sub-disciplines comprising the broader field of “architecture”—Academic, Building, Curatorial, Editorial—helping students gain insight into the shifting role of the architect today.
In short:
Daily Show explores humanity’s relationship to technology.
Daily Show examines the many roles and identities of the architect.
Daily Show imagines a new relationship between work and play.
Daily Show sees life as an urban performance. In the end, it is one big show.
PROCESS AND MAKING
Throughout the semester this studio will explore working across disciplines in the field of architecture: Academic, Building, Curating and Editorial. Students will be given insight into the role of an architect in all the development processes while crossing disciplines as they will experience these matters in the studio.
Each group will define their own project and at the same time, groups will be editing another group’s work, curating an exhibition for another, and writing an essay for another one.
For each discipline—independently of the subject and on the development of processes—we will use the same method and will be working with different acts according to the studio’s schedule: Analysis—Act1, Diagnosis—Act 2, Concept—Act 3 and Strategy—Act 4.
For each Act we will invite specialist guests to add their knowledge to the studio with a lecture and time for conversation with the students. For this, the progression, presence, process, and contribution during the semester are important parameters of appreciation together with the quality of the design.
The studio is thought of as a continuous process, where each week students have tasks to accomplish. We gather every week to discuss the progress of the work. Presence in the studio is fundamental. We learn while we discuss and while we watch a colleague’s discussion. We interact in order to improve and to help improve our colleagues, too.
The communication of the projects is to be carefully conveyed: drawings and models are more than literal representations and their quality is also something to be taken into consideration.
We will make sure to provide to the students critiques and suggestions about research methods and design, and working development, in order to achieve the best results based on time constraints.
The studio will work actively with the following methods of representation: conceptual models, working models, CAD and hand drawings at different scales, perspectives, axonometrics, and collages. Students will also be required to make presentation models. Students will need to arrange access to a camera and lighting equipment to photograph all models being produced during the semester.
TRAVEL WEEK
Our proposal for the travel week is São Paulo, Brazil. São Paulo is a vibrating city in which architecture takes a prominent role in the urban performance.
Looking at the daily life of the city with its inhabitants, its very own aesthetics, and its genuine theatrical condition will enable to admire the quality of architecture with very strong presence of authorial codes.
This brings out the intentions of the Studio and to be exposed to such liveness will set one’s mind into a new knowledge and new perceptions of life.
Travel week is an important moment for the Studio. Not only will it enable the understanding of the program of the studio but exploring a new country together will almost certainly generate productive discussions and establish new friendships. During travel week we will explore different areas of the city of São Paulo with all the cultural offerings and visit buildings from an architect’s perspective at a comfortable and pleasant pace, assimilating the knowledge and singularity of each building or areas.
We will be exploring the classics, the past and the contemporary architecture that makes Brazil a place of the convergence of interests. We will also be able to visit some of the most exciting contemporary architecture practices in their studio spaces.
Traveling is a fundamental experience in life, one of the core components of architectural education. Our aim is to raise awareness to the essence of what architecture is, to the valorization and democratization of artistic heritage with the example of São Paulo’s architecture.
Travel arrangements will be provided prior to the site visit.