After City 2: Tolerance and Compromise
Alantejo, Portugal

Studio 2 will continue to explore the potential of contemporary rural landscape. Working with the notions of the assemblage, incrementalism and infrastructure, we will look for small adjustments and architectural strategies that accept absence and slackness as a critical alternative to regeneration through completeness. Portugal is a mosaic of landscapes, partly the result of climatic conditions but also as a result of human activities, particularly agriculture and industry. We will speculate on the impacts of various sectors on the landscape, the consequences of which can be found not only in the physical environment but also in the daily lives of people.
    Studio 2 will continue its collaboration with Berlin-based research organisation, The Leibniz Institute  for Research on Space and Society, and the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) and work undertaken in the studio will contribute to the EU Horizon 2020 research programme.

Teaching partner: Colin O’Sullivan
In collaboration with: Jamie-Scott Baxter
Student work: Rana Al-Kolaibi, Paul Benko, Joe Douglas, Lori Lee Fong, Luca Puzzoni, Raki Shiddiky 

Studio 2, LMU, 2018–19