Modern architecture: A house deconstructed

Modern architecture: A house deconstructed Mark Jarzombek and Vikramaditya Prakash, Co-Founders of the Office of (Un)Certainty Research (a collaboration dedicated to rethinking modern architecture), take us on a journey of a deconstructed house. Professor Vikramaditya Prakash of the University of Washington and Professor Mark Jarzombek of MIT are co-founders of the Office of Uncertainty Research. This collaboration is dedicated to rethinking architecture in a modern context. The office investigates different aspects of architectural production at the planetary scale. They recently studied a just-completed, modern house in Seattle, asking a simple question: Where do all the materials come from? As it turns out, the building industries, even some of those associated with sustainability, make it difficult to trace the origin and flow of materials. Some of this is because materials like rubber are obviously involved in a complex array of processes, many of which are proprietary in nature. Some of it is simply because there are no publicly available records, whether purposefully or not.