Guest Speaker - Alexis Sanal

The guest speaker from Turkey presented many of her projects during the lecture and visited tutorial rooms during the afternoon. She was very invigorating and seemed very optimistic about the future of design. I sat in on a group of students who presented their assignment to her during the tutorial. It was based on removing business from the CBD and replacing it as a central place to live. They had design ideas which created interesting but ambitious spaces within the city. Her comments were insightful but suggested that commercial and business aspects of the city remain. She was very optimistic about implementing radical ideas to create stimulating ideas to live and work in which is suprising for a practicing architect.