The Morphology of Architectural Ideals
This project examines translations of Utopian texts as an architectural project that problematizes the idea of the ideal image as an architectural discourse. It concerns the impulse to translate text into a two-dimensional image that embodies an idealised architectural presence and visual details. It problematizes the translation process between the text, the image, and the architectural form as different mediums of communication towards an architectural realization.
Site Location: Paper Architecture (Siteless)
Status: Theoretical/Experimental Academic Project
Architectural Association School of Architecture (2017)
Unit Master: Maria Fedorchenko
This project utilizes textual (mis)understandings in order to both challenge the inescapable biases in our transcriptions of architectural elements conveyed in literature and explore the possibilities of new typological orders. It embraces the indefinite possibilities of architectural forms within ideal cities in the (mis)interpretation of architectural spaces as described in Utopian literature.
By using myself and Tomasso Campanella (author of the city of the sun) as case study actors, this project evokes further discussions about architecture and its representations. It celebrates the potential for architectural invention through (mis)understandings of an architectural description. Since architecture, especially in its written form, is wholly adaptable. Due to the nature of its liberty in interpretation: Outputs that concern the ideal city can only be many and never just one.
