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ARCH 502A: LARGE MODELS AND DRAWINGS

Instructor: Jimenez Lai

The Death Bloom

A century in the future, the burgeoning spectacle of global society’s implosion culminates in a symptomatic death bloom: a celebration of life too late in the form of the 2125 World Expo. Located in the port-city made paradise of Corpus Christi, Texas, this expo reprises the Grand Ring of its century-old, Osakan predecessor. A massive boardwalk of a city in a world going down singing, filled with constructs of virtues turned vices. As time marches on, the manicured grandness of this design will be overcome by auto constructed dwellings, and generations later, shall erode away. Once outgrown, this finite landscape will be used as raw material to craft the instruments of its populace’s withdrawal, and they shall act as agents of their own undoing.