Snap Crackle POP

 

There has always been a back-and-forth debate around pop culture and its place in certain genres. While I do feel that it is good to look at trends and pop culture to learn how to design to the diverse needs of people and their lives, there is a way to go about without taking from others. Staying current with innovations in design is always going to happen, but it should be implemented at the right time and place. It’s no question that architecture has its biases and more often than not it affects the less fortunate. And most of the time it’s the people with no background in architecture that make the decisions on where buildings go and what they should look like to fit their agenda rather than being of use to the people of the city. It is this blindness that ends up displacing many people in low-income households to fit the supposed “city aesthetic” of the powers that be. In that right, I do agree with Denise Scott Brown when she says “They can’t learn from pop until Pop hangs in the academy” because if it's still of current practice we can’t truly learn from the mistakes and will continually repeat them.