“Postmodernism is what you have when the modernization process is complete and nature is gone for good.” –Fredric Jameson

Every piece of architecture registers the designer’s attitude towards nature – whether the designer is conscious of his/her attitude or not. Working in this technologically-centric, politically-bankrupt, and ecologically-challenged age, architects can no longer remain neutral. Through redesigning John Portman’s Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles for its centennial year of 2076, each student will not only develop their own attitude regarding architecture’s future relationship with nature, but also its ideal relationship to our future city itself.  -Amy Murphy 

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Paracosm

M.Arch  Outstanding Directed Design Research Award

To achieve sustainable cities in the future, we as designers should pay more attention to the needs of the voiceless, repressed, and marginalized.

Following this goal, this project is imagining Portman’s Bonaventure in 2076 as a safe space for Los Angeles’s long lost children and nature.

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