‘Towards a Neo-architecture’ proposes the necessity of a cognitive and radical change in architecture—architectural pedagogy and practice. It counterpoints Le Corbusier’s “Towards a New Architecture” with the necessity for a re-evaluation of what 'new' means in his polemical manifesto from 1923, now, a century later, in terms of the global concerns of climate catastrophes and human wellbeing. The research tries to explore a critical architectural agenda on contemporary conventional urban lifestyle deeply rooted in unethical commercial consumerism and the supported contemporary conventional architecture of neoliberal capitalism that directly exacerbates the post-urban crisis; in fact, it explores the idea of how architecture can be used to destabilize designing for conventions and eventually change these conventions. The project integrates interdisciplinary contextual approaches to develop a speculative proposal. Globally and environmentally, climate catastrophe is the main context in which the research envisions its extents in where the strange normalism is presented, people are seduced by the synthetic consumerism while confronting the post-urban crisis in the modern urban world.The research tries to investigate the strategies to replace that current urban lifestyle with an ethical mode — Ethical Urban Lifestyle (EUL) towards a social transformation. A new mode of architecture — ‘Neo-architectures’, is imagined for the social transformation in terms of climate catastrophe and social justice through the medium of speculative architecture. The idea of trying to convey by the research is communicated through a utopic urban architectural academy– Mortal-X Lab 51 as the ideal platform for propagating the idea — education.
| Date of Award | 7 Mar 2025 |
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| Original language | English |
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| Supervisor | Nic Clear (Main Supervisor) |
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