Great quote on context from Bernard Tschumi. Hopefully this will get us thinking critically about our site analysis and what ideas from this analysis our architectural design can build off of.
Although architects generally make a clear distinction between what is given (context) and what is to be conceived (concept), the relationship is not so simple. Rather than a given, context is something defined by the observer, in the same way that a scientific fact is influenced by the observation of the scientist…Context is not fact; it is always a matter of interpretation.
- Bernard Tschumi
Event-Cities 3, Concept vs. Context vs. Content, 2004
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