After Hernán Díaz Alonso’s introduction, Sarah M. Whiting, proposes to explore how cities can be “dynamic, complicated, imbricated wholes rather than aggregated ones.” She reviews the history of theoretical formulations of the city, from Aristotle to Peter Sloterdijk. For Whiting, architects, artists, landscape architects, planners and local actors can construct paths to openness and commonality to counter the current urban condition of “pockets of sameness”.
Whiting concludes with a review of some of her projects with Ron Witte at WW Architecture:
• Kaohsiung Pop Music Center, Taiwan
• Kahui Exchange, Hunan, China
• IntraCenter, Lexington, Kentucky
• 33 Bristol Street (home & office), Cambridge, Massachusetts
• EL House, Houston, Texas