Summary

How close is architecture to developing a ‘universal motherboard’, a typology so basic, economic, and bereft of whim that it can serve any program on any site? Is this absolutist crystallization of the big box a universal trend, or is it in fact the result of the genius loci of the Midwest? These questions framed the basis of and helped guid the speculative design process that the students worked within. Challenged with creating a "big box city" where residents would be exposed to and or live within the production, consumption, and wast processes that make up everyday goods; in other words a consumer intervention.

Faculty

Virginia North
Keith Philips
Philip Plowright
James Stevens

Students