Through work on an embassy’ish, we focused on relational structuring, increasing representation range and design method dexterity, augmenting schematic design, and increasing form specificity. Initiating the term ‘Rules, Delivered’ foregrounded working syntactically.

‘World Building’ utilized kit bashing to build rich embassies. And ‘Acupunctural Probes’ used varied sites: Great Wall of China; Chernobyl; Pacific Trash Gyre, etc. to situate an embassy. The embassies ‘housed’ humans, animals, vegetative material, and weather—things estranged from their homeland. Two ’content engines’ shaped the work—a ‘charged site’ and a ‘conceptual drive’. Drawing analogously on American artist Matthew Barney’s series, ‘Drawing Restraints’, where creative growth occurs through resistance the students designed an embassy that was subjected to site induced resistances and conceptual restraints that challenged default assumptions, to acquire strengthened spatial muscles and home away from home fiber. Home Away From Home, 10 weeks, considered animal, plant and weather worlds in the design of an embassy that was subjected to ‘site obstacles’ and a ‘conceptual resistance’. The sites included the Very Large Array; an iceberg; Red Tide, etc. Everyone selected a conceptual drive: ‘spatial ventriloquism’; ‘fast-change architecture’; ‘time lapse architecture’; etc. You could design an embassy through the conceptual ‘resistance’ of ‘milled Baroque’ while ‘grounding’ it above the shrines at Ise.