
Out of the Ordinary
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Out of the Ordinary introduces a different approach to architecture which is based on spatial narrative rather than form and influenced by literature rather than appropriations from the world of art world. It advocates for architecture which privileges space over form, experience over image, and narrative over authorship. In previous decades, architectural production was constrained by the limits of technology; architects pushed on the boundaries imposed by technology and it gave them common purpose. Those limits are gone.
Over the preceding two decades it has been demonstrated that with enough technology (and money) anything is possible. What does an architect do when anything is possible? This is the question which confronts architects today, who now operate within a professional landscape where all is possible, but little has meaning. The ?anything goes? mentality which currently prevails has resulted in innumerable self-referential ?object? buildings which engage only with their architect's ego, often resulting in an urban fabric of autonomous formal objects comprised of arbitrarily-applied design tropes which celebrate formal invention for its own sake. But what do architects leave society once the novelty of form has worn off? In this architectural age of arbitrary shape-making, devoid of context or meaning, Out of the Ordinary proposes an architecture of innovation rising from ordinary concerns, about relationships not form, which exposes new spatial relationships with diagrammatic clarity in a process of distillation what seeks to lay bare meaningful relationships between essential building elements.
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- Intro
- Out of the Ordinary - John Ronan
- Memento Mori - The Old Post Office
- Hybrid Typologies - Perth Amboy High School
- Coming Home - The Gary Comer Youth Center
- Parallel Realities - Yale Steam Laundry
- Shaping a Culture - Gary Comer College Prep
- Brick by Brick, Word by Word - John Ronan
- No Strings Attached - The Poetry Foundation
- Building Blocks - Erie Elementary Charter School
- Civic Engagement - Sean Keller
- The Illusion of Solitude - Courtyard House
- Rooms in Black and White - Gallery House
- The Urban Room - 151 North Franklin
- Threading the Needle - The Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship
- 860-880 Lake Shore Drive - John Ronan
- The Spatial Icon - University Conference Center
- Hope and Optimism - The Obama Presidential Center
- Wallflower - University of Cincinnati Alumni Center
- Reflections on the Work of John Ronan - Carlos Jimenez
- That Lost Feeling - University College Dublin Future Campus and Centre for Creative Design
- A Reclaiming - Lemont Quarries Adventure Park
- Cross-Fertilization - Independence Library and Apartments
- A Cultural Inherintance - Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Museum Learning Center
- Dignifying Work - Chicago Park District Headquarters
- The Next Bauhaus - John Ronan
- Chronology
- Biographies
- Acknowledgements
- Project Credits
- Book Credits
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