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CLASH OF ARCHITECTURE TITANS: THE DILEMMA OF MODERN HOUSING

The Board of Directors of La Biennale di Venezia, upon recommendation from Alejandro Aravena, have announced that 98 percent of everything that is built and designed today is “pure shit”. “Houses today are not attached to a value”-Raphael Sperry, founder of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility. 

Frank Gehry claimed that there’s no sense of design, no respect for humanity or for anything else [in houses projects these days]. This was Gehry’s response to Deanna VanBuren’s thesis project, that consisted in a [housing complex in] Paquetá Island, in the middle of Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, which both integrates [dwellings] with a school of [architecture] and is embedded within the community. 

Paulo Mendes da Rocha has used his thesis project to add to this debate, [defending that] VanBuren’s thesis could be the radical approach answer to the stretched [housing] system in the city of Rio. 

Amongst several international architects, Mendes da Rocha [has been] both criticizing and defending current architecture, however, as a designer of houses and apartment buildings, the Brazilian architect supports VanBurren, [saying she is] rethinking what a house can achieve, positing it as a place where [dwellers] and students can learn from each other, giving students the chance to get a sense of the real-life situations which they study, and offering the [residents] intellectual stimulation and a deeper understanding of the [architectural] structure in which they are entangled. 

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