INHABITATION, TIME, EXPRESSION, MATERIAL

Davidson Rafailidis investigates how to create long-lasting meaning
in the built environment within a global economy that operates
through business plans that focus on the short-term. Davidson
Rafailidis investigates this contemporary dilemma through two
venues: Firstly, by exploring a stable long lived architecture that
is able to connect to people in fundamental, long-lasting and
immediate ways independent of short-lived, official programs. A
second category of projects pursues this inquiry through unstable
architecture that transforms over time. With unstable architecture,
Davidson Rafailidis investigates how architecture could respond and
adapt to changing demands or simply disappear after its initial
use. Four terms define the basic principles with which they
themselves describe their work: "inhabitation, time, expression,
material". How these can be linked in both their projects and
teaching is what we talk about today with Stephanie and Georg in
our podcast.