The Fifth Plan

Harvard GSD

In this seminar, we will consider the evolution of the floor plan across five iterations: proto-modern, modern, post-modern, plan-non-chalant, and, most importantly, the present. We will begin with a simple hypothesis about the present, namely that there is a new plan afoot. This plan has been making its way into architecture across a long gestation, declaring what it isn’t more often than what it is. Its terms are not those of the suck-the-air-out gangly hollowness of proto-modern…