this is a design studio which kuu is conducting at the architecture department of shenzhen university for the 2008-2009 semester. together with the students, we want to rethink the idea of ‘clarity’ in conventional architecture thinking which as architects we have inherited (without any ambivalence) from early modernist architecture. we are interested in the notion of ‘mixing’ or ’stirring’. could this estrangement from clarity or definition lead us to new thinking about privacy, communality, and boundaries? ultimately, will this inspire us to think of a new kind of architecture?

through a series of exercises, ranging from scales small to big, students will attempt to give modern architecture a stir.