ABSTRACT
The proposals included here are part of a larger project of research and speculation which we’ve named “I-10 the Gulf Coast States.” This body of work explores the question of how to better create an architecture that has the capacity to respond to particular cultural circumstances. Interstate 10, the east-west highway which links the Gulf Coast states, provides the framework, both literally and figuratively, which organizes these proposals. All of the projects are thematically related in support of a single thesis that explores the obligation of architecture to contribute to particular geographic places. In the words of Flannery O’Connor, that meticulous craftsman of the short story, “Someplace is better than anyplace.”
