PEEL Launch Party

PEEL is excited to invite you to their first issue launch party on June 8th, 6:30 PM, Ware Lounge 600.

Peel is a digital student-run journal with an ethos of accessibility - a platform to discuss architecture as much more than an aesthetic art - to peel away the superficial layers and reveal the core impacts architecture has on our world. Peeling can be intense and transformative - it can reveal fresh layers not usually allowed to breathe. It can scrape off potent thoughts and put them on display. This is the ideology of Peel - emerging within GSAPP’s methodology, we aim to expand the understanding of topics that can be engaged by architecture. Through examining the notion of “building,” not as a noun but as a verb, we expand our understanding of building as a process rather than a static form and reveal a broadened scope of trans scalar examinations, social and political relationships, and ecological impacts. As a generation inundated with social responsibility, we know that practice goes beyond mere aesthetics, program, and material catalogs - and as such we must re-evaluate the goals of our field in relation to the current global crisis. Peel will render visible architecture’s pressing responsibilities today.