'Goodell's kindergarten teaches architecture, aesthetics, and nature, which are essential in preparing children for a dystopian future. We constantly go in and out of thinking about issues of the environment, preventing us from fully understanding our impact on our surroundings. 'Madison Goodell's goal was to capture how our connection to the environment is transforming. Burtynsky's photographs depict landscapes that from one perspective should be considered polluted, violated, and destroyed. 'Hudson River School paintings represent an 'inoculated' sublime where nature's power is comfortably held at a distance. 'This first-year design studio explored two types of sublime art, one being the Hudson River School painters and another being the photographs of Edward Burtynsky.

Kindergarten for an Ecological Disaster by Madison Goodell

'We believe in the benevolent power of architecture to contribute to the environmental restoration of our planet, to establish a more productive, harmonious, and symbiotic relationship with the natural world, and to imbue our buildings with an awe-inspiring sense of wonder and delight.' 'Together, we reimagine the future built environment as an ecologically responsive, energy-efficient, socially conscious, and poetically charged constellation of buildings and infrastructures that reinvigorate and empower diverse communities around the world.

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