INHABITATION, TIME, EXPRESSION, MATERIAL

Davidson Rafailidis investigates how to create long-lasting meaning in the built environment within a global economy that operates through business plans that focus on the short-term. Davidson Rafailidis investigates this contemporary dilemma through two venues: Firstly, by exploring a stable long lived architecture that is able to connect to people in fundamental, long-lasting and immediate ways independent of short-lived, official programs. A second category of projects pursues this inquiry through unstable architecture that transforms over time. With unstable architecture, Davidson Rafailidis investigates how architecture could respond and adapt to changing demands or simply disappear after its initial use. Four terms define the basic principles with which they themselves describe their work: "inhabitation, time, expression, material". How these can be linked in both their projects and teaching is what we talk about today with Stephanie and Georg in our podcast.