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ARCH 793AB: Tactical Techniques

Instructor: John Southern

/Divison of the Intangible

While political agendas and colonial presences have blurred the intangible barriers of sovereignty, the border has transformed into a new spatial element breaking free from its traditional framework of demarcation and division. Instead, it embraces the socio-economic territories, hybrid cultures, and historical narratives that interact through this threshold.

Through the erosion of the border, the intervening spaces will bridge global and continental networks of economic and migratory patterns passing through the demarcated area. Utilizing planar and extruded topographic lines within the “gray zone,” its architectural tectonics define and reinforce the historical, cultural, and individual narratives of those traversing the space.