Graduate Thesis 2021-22. Advisor: Ryan Tyler Martinez
THE AESTHETICS OF REPRESENTATION.
The Aesthetics of Representation
Architecture has always relied heavily on representation to rationalize and describe its conceptual nature. However, in the post 'Digital Turn' of Architecture, images/drawings/models have become easier to create, causing the geometries we produce to become more complex and specific, while our depictions shift towards that of a documentation rather than representation. The role of representation has become complacent and conventional and needs to be addressed in a more critical and thoughtful way.
This thesis seeks to propose Representation as Project. A conceptual investigation into the way architects portray our work through drawings, images, and models that define and express the project. By investigating the current methodologies of various mediums in architectural representation and challenging their relationship within their process and meaning to the project, the practice, and the discipline. The goal is to represent representation; that is a translation of elements with the architects’ own interpretation for an aesthetic. Representation as technique rather than a result of them.
Though seemingly disparate, all the representation produced are united by the fact that they are not design drawings, but rather drawings about architecture. In their own way, each pose questions about the nature and characteristics of the thing called architecture and ultimately explore the question of what it means to make architecture.
“Travel is very useful and it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our own journey is entirely imaginary.
That is its strength. It goes from life to death.
People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined.
It’s a novel, simply a fictitious narrative.”
That is its strength. It goes from life to death.
People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined.
It’s a novel, simply a fictitious narrative.”
- Céline’s, “Journey to the End of the Night,”
