Essay: Site as a design battlefield

Below is my essay written as part of Architectural Humanities III: Theories in Contemporary Architecture module (led by Dr. Jordan Kauffman), awarded a First Class grade.

Site as a design battlefield : Evaluating the strategies of acknowledging history and site context in museum design, by comparison of the Sainsbury Wing and Ningbo History Museum (opens as a pdf)

Ningbo History Museum by Amateur Architecture Studio

Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery by Venturi Scott Brown