Susan Conger-Austin, architect and professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, taught a series of classes in the graduate course Architecture, Geography, and Architecture at Escola da Cidade. She addressed the concept of unvolumetric architecture – defined from the construction of spaces unattached to the construction of buildings – and its effects on the urban development in the United States between 2000 and 2013.  In order to raise the urban transformations generated by the creation of quality public spaces , she presented three examples: New York (High-Line, Ground Zero and Lincoln Center), Seattle (Olympic Sculpture Park), and Chicago (Millennium Park). This has been another experience of language mediation and debate based on cultural differences between teachers and students.

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work.”
                                                                                                                     

Daniel Hudson Burnham (1846-1912)

                        +link to unvolumetric architecture