los angeles CALIFORNIA
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
advisor: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Jason ORBE-SMITH: This thesis examines elements of vernacular architecture as a means to influence and generate contemporary form.
As society moves towards a state of interconnectivity, heterogeneity and the globalization of politics, culture and economy, this thesis reinvestigates the discussion concerning the native, indigenous and local with notions of the cosmopolitan, global and foreign.
