ABSTRACT
A profoundly dedicated educator, Evan Douglis has been assembling over the past fifteen years an astonishing array of experiments that probe the raw capacities of expressive regimes in architecture. It is best to state these discovered or, at times, utterly fabricated, capacities as raw because they are acts of generosity that await one's applications. Focus in on any of the individual experiments, and one will encounter a savvy intellect enumerating tactical responses to a panoply of contemporary topics. Though the individual moments abound with sharp polemics, the general arc of the investigation cannot be assigned to a single thesis or be relegated to a specific segment of a topical discourse. Though masked in the guise of rarified experiments, the apparent and not-so-apparent extensions into design practice reveal calculated challenges to the status quo, but also a most beautiful faith in architecture. And it is this market-driven decoration of architecture that becomes a new battlefield for the postmodern critique.
