Mackintosh School of Architecture
/ MSA Stage 5
/ Rachel Houston
/ “Time, Tide and River Waits for No One”
“Time, Tide and River Waits for No One”
by Rachel Houston, Leon Lawson
Poster Series Output created as part of semester 1 primer task.
‘The ethical way to build in cities accepts the primacy of adaptation… Mitigation and adaptation are basic modes of all building.’
Richard Sennett, Building and Dwelling : Ethics for the City (Allen Lane, 2018), 278
“A conceptual intervention, rupture, or architectural speculation testing the idea of how we live with water today, and how we might live with it tomorrow.”
a. How can the threshold between land and water become a site for intervention, disruption, or renewal?
b. What spatial features might emerge when water is no longer background but a driver of architectural imagination?
Time
Tide
and Flood
Waits for No One