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ON A JOURNEYTOURISM, CLICHES AND STEREOTYPES OF THE CONTEMPORARY

PARIS NEW YORK ARCHITECTURAL STUDIO. SPRING SEMESTER

11.01.2012

Director: Patrick O'Connor Professors: Antoine Santiard , Tsuyoshi Tane, Marcos Garcia Rojo

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INTRODUCTION

Journey: An act or instance of traveling from one place to another (trip).

Traveling: 1. to go on or as if on a trip or tour; 2. to move or undergo transmission from

one place to another; 3. to withstand relocation successfully; 4. to move in a given direc-

tion or path or through a given distance. 5. to move rapidly.

Source: Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary; http://www.merriam-webster.com

The act of traveling implies the positioning of ourselves out of our known environment.

This decision produces an auto-imposed state of detachment that allows us to look from a

completely different angle local idiosyncrasies. It is an act of continuous exploration and

it represents a deliberate search even in the most unconscious manners. As a result, every

trip is a nding; a discovery that unveils new territories for experimentation.

If taken as a conscious journey to the deepness of our cultural cliches and assumptions,

the trip is a tool of enormous value as it provides a certain distance for observation,

critique and reformulation. However, it also demands a high dose of self-awareness (or

induced looseness) in order to accept our own prejudices, isolate them and manipulate

them in a fully creative way.Reasons for traveling may include tourism, vacation, research, holiday, migration, reli-

gious pilgrimages, business, eeing, etc. As a foreigner, every traveler experiences differ-

ent states when arriving to a particular location: rst, a sense of estrangement or surpris-

ing familiarity based on his personal and cultural background and sensibility. Secondly,

a sort of natural empathy (or antipathy) with the visited place that allows to freshly look

to its particularities. Finally, once the trip reaches its end, a certain state of nostalgia that

allows the traveler to bring back to his point of departure the ndings of his trip.

Your stay in Paris is a double-condition journey: on one hand, the search of a new orienta-

tion for your studies and education (towards architecture, vers une architecture); on the

other hand, a chance to immerse yourselves into the peculiarities of the European cities,

urbanism and architecture. The studio proposes you the study, understanding and exploi-

tation of this journey as a tool for architectural research and production. These operations

will allow us to question, through a series of short of assignments and a nal design

project, our assumptions regarding the city of Paris and to unveil new opportunities for

its development.

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