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From: mcalvino@ij.net
RE: Architectural Thesis Comments A thesis should be an investigation of something that one is greatly interested in, and something that may have implications of some very in depth ideas and discussions about the process of making, the process of architecture . . . about life even. The important thing is to investigate an issue. For example, today there is a great, increasing focus on the "digital" aspects of technology . . . this focus permeates all aspects of life and is, whether we like to think so or not, affected by and affects our perception of what is real and what is not real. Let us take a simple issue like a model. There are 3d cad models, the digital model, and there are physical models . . . 1/8" = 1'-0", 1/2", full scale mock ups, etc. Each has different qualities and possibilities. The point here is that our focus of the development of architecture is one that is experiential. And it is important to investigate how each process affects perception. This is not to say that one is more valid than another, but that depending on what its purpose is (and here we get into the essence of what makes a process architecture as opposed to art) each has its time and place. This issue of digital vs. analog is one that may be placed into a larger context and interpreted metaphorically (and this begins to bridge the gap between the idea and our perception of built form and space) to have implications of issues like temporality and permanence, essence and character, rectilinear and free form. These are all part of a discussion that belongs to the macro issue while a thesis should be a micro-investigation within this sort of macro issue. While the thesis is a very specific project (maybe the development of a single structure that houses a program dealing with something that may be both virtual and real and push the duality in every way possible, investigating both equally in order to come upon some hypothesis about the dichotomy itself) the issues that the project is investigating reside in the larger realm of the previous thoughts in these paragraphs. I refer to this duality of characteristics because it is something that I became increasingly interested in my first year of graduate school and I am now nearly obsessed with discovering why I keep asking what this relationship is between the irrational and the rational . . . my work still delves into the bridge between the imagination and its manifestation in the physical world.
--Calvino |
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