BSc Unit 1 Yr 2: Katherine Cannon, Benjamin Dawson, Wanyu Guo, Daniel Hall, Jay Morton, Alastair Stokes, Ashmi Thapar, Afra Van’t Land, Joey Wegrzyn. Yr 3: Byron Bassington, Amanda Bate, Philip Cottrell, Costa Elia, Stephanie Gallia, James Hughes, Lucy Paton, Anthony Staples, Spencer Treacy.
Allegory From Plato’s philosophical parables to Marcel Duchamp’s ‘allegorical appearance’ of the Bride, allegory- a structure of thought where a secondary meaning hides behind narrative and story telling- exists throughout history not only in literature but also philosophy, science, art and architecture. Departing from the modernist aphorism ‘form follows function’, Unit 1 seeks to define design traits for an allegorical architecture, where form can also follow fiction. To capture this symbolic potential of buildings, and following last year’s successful experience with animated/time-based architectural representations, we continued merging the boundaries between drawing, modelling, film and collage. The focus of our investigation was Mexico City: a place contrasting between the mythical floating city of the Aztecs and the everyday contemporary life of one of the most densely populated cities in the world. We studied the city first from a distancethrough its representations in literature, art and film- and then close up starting from the city’s heart: Zócalo.
Penelope Haralambidou and Eduardo Rosa
Top: Daniel Hall. Middle: Wanyu Guo. Bottom: Anthony Staples.