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Collage Works : Architectural Studies. Outpost Studios, Norwich.   Source: Collage Works : Architectural Studies. Outpost Studios, Norwich.

Bricolage, Creative Audit of Research Topics and Processes THE ARCHITECTURE OF NATURAL LIGHT, Henry Plummer. 2009 THE OTHER ARCHITECTURE, Constructing metaphysical space. Catching The Light. The Entwined History of Light And Mind. Arthur Zajonc EVANESCENCE Orchestration of light to mutate through time PROCESSION Choreography of light for the moving eye VEILS OF GLASS Refraction of…

BOUNDARIES AND JUNCTION POINTS ARE IN THE NATURE OF THINGS POINTS OF FRICTION  BOUNDARIES AND JUNCTION POINTS Lefebvre, The Production of Space. Lefebvre in his chapter on Spatial Architectonics makes reference to the relationships established by boundaries and the relationship between boundaries and named places. These relationships promote significant and specific conditions or features to…

Visual/Spatial Vocabularies and Narratives (Livelihoods and Social Interactions)  The Solar Pavilion, Upper Lawn, Wiltshire. SP3 6SJ ‘A building intervenes between subject and space.’(Kengo Kuma) ‘Things need to be ordinary and heroic at the same time.’(Alison and Peter Smithson) ‘The Charged Void- contains references to the architects’ concern that their buildings should command a wider territory.…

Working Towards a Secular Retreat in the Landscape  Working Towards a Secular Retreat in the Landscape. The task of architecture is to maintain the differentiation and hierarchical and qualitative articulation of existential space. Instead of participating in the process of further speeding up the experience of the world, architecture has to slow down experience, halt…

Diffractive Reading : Slow Philosophy     Orange School Graph Books Harleston 2020-2021 A Species of Spaces The Social Turn Museum Site and Display Political Philosophy Makers work in a world that does not stand still Iteration allows for continual correction (material conversation) in response to an ongoing perceptual monitoring of the task as it…

Painting and Clay Construction : Few boundaries are impenetrable : They are rather, semi-permeable membranes providing housing while allowing selective commerce     Site-Specificity/Spatial Practice The distinguishing characteristic of today’s site-oriented art is the way in which both the art work’s relationship to the actuality of a location (as site) and the social conditions of…

The aesthetics of the intermingling of function and form in everyday things   Frames, Handles and Landscapes Simmel 1965 A tools beauty springs from the many unintended and absolute causalities, instead of being a materialization of an aesthetic idea The Thinking Hand Pallasmaa Affordances provide strong clues to the operations of things Gibson A psychology…

Making Spaces : Between Speculative Movements of Reading Architecture DRAWING INTO THE READING ROOM MAKING SPACES PARTIAL to the material flows and currents of sensory awareness in which IMAGES and OBJECTS reciprocally take shape/meaning. FLEDGLING ARCHITECTURE IN THE MAKING ISOTROPIC SPACE SOCIALIZED SOCIABLE INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE through a sensitive adaptation of place studies, and using materials…

The Waverley Project : Working Notes: 2014 Exploratory Project MA Interior Design SPACE SITE INTERVENTION Through Archaeological Methods. A space has been created, allowing for a different construction of what may be significant in these circumstances, relative to objects found in association with each other. (Robert Williams, Disjecta Reliquiae The Tate Thames Dig) Associations and…