Firstly, talking on Ideal space to place, for instance, ‘on the way’ space is what normally we have in everyday life. The idea of exploring this on-the-way space is to relate the factors and theories of how every designers could transform a meaningless space to a memory space. Before this, I would see bus station, staircase, pedestrian as very boring places. However, I would never think that all these spaces are very potential to evoke memory to the users. From this topic, basically let me clearly differentiate the term of space and place. By understanding space is one-dimensional and is only a physical location; however, place is subjective and created when emotional connections, physical attributes and different perceptions are combined. In short, it has changed my perspective to express ideas to a single space by looking deep into the setting for a multitude of different places depening on how it is used, read and perceived.

Followed by expressing emotions, feels towards a place, human five senses could actually come into mind. Ms Sue had given a lot of visual and verbal reference of senses from Daniel Libeskin Jewish museum design, TED talk by Jinsop Lee. To me, I would normally visualize quality of space to dominate my perception towards a building. However, artists like architects have tried to integrate every senses to experiential qualities in their architecture. Those designers have given me alot of innovative ideas to express integrating 5 senses to propose design concepts. This is one of the case study by Ms Sue where smell has associated with reminiscence in The Art of Scent in New York City. Implementing fragrance as an artistic medium for a museum is very creative and more distinctive than others. From this point of view, designing a building is not only to be creative. Be innovative is somehow important that your design shows its own uniqueness. I have learnt how to express different human senses in studio museum design project, to let visitors feel the way leprosy patients have felt all the while.

However, innovation sometimes come from inspiration. I totally agree with the statement, ‘Inspiration is everywhere’. An architect is trained to think in artistic way. Whatever inspires you, can always be possible to turn into your building design one day. Only having inspiration is not enough, you need to have limitless imagination to bring expression to your building. It is pretty amazing to look at Elenberg Fraser's Design for Melbourne Tower that was inspired by Beyonce's dancing curve. This reminds us again that architecture inspiration is not only from architecture building, can be anywhere else you can see. Even in other way round, architecture can inspire fashion or vice versa.

Relating back to expressionism in building design, how architecture can be expressed through movie filming. This topic is one of the hardest one to tackle, however, it had greatly changed my perspective towards movie filming. Before I met Ms Sue, I had never realize the importance of expressing architecture in movie filming. Not only amazed by the effects in Star Wars movie, but we should really look into the effort of spending time to draft out drawings and build modular spaceships for movie filming. From film critique,  I have realized even minor details of background movie setting can affect viewers to feel emotionally sensitive. Of course, the cast design of characters will always be the main key to express story well.

Looking back to all related topics discussed above, community architecture is a new topic to me. Few architects might choose to collaborate with non-profit entities which benefits the community that needs them. Returning back what you earn to the community is a way of doing good. However, today, I had totally changed my perception on community project. It is much more difficult than a tendered project. Before gathering volunteers, someone might be architects needs to raise fund or find sponsors to kick start a project. Architects might as well face issue to guide unskilful volunteers which might slow down construction progress. However, community architecture has made a significant change of how people shower their love to the need ones. Community architecture is very simple to give basic help and consultation without priority of profit. 

From the very first week of theories class, towards the end of the semester, I found out that almost every students have changed their perspective very naturally.  Ms Sue has taught us a very different way of approach in architecture through different case study as well as public talks like PAM talk and TED talk. Students will not probably attend those talks actively if Ms Sue did not make it as part of our courseworks. However, outcome from learning theories is very impressive and even out of my expectation. Realizing I have gained great ability to apply essential knowledge from different designers and express ideas in any method to propose design concept and solutions.