Dip Unit 19 Yr 4: Sam Hobson, Nathanial McMahon, Jessica Moxham, Matteo Sarno, Alexander Schramm, Andrew Smith, Ben Sweeting, Bruce Thompson. Yr 5: Haseb Faqirzada, Pravin Ghosh, Roy Ori Goor, Sebastian Mann, Daniel Marcal, Massimo Minale, Yiu Fai Poon, Sophie Spens.
The Pataphysical Exceptions of Reflexive Architecture Since the mid 1990s the impact of virtual technology has rapidly changed the architectural profession. This change has altered even the most mundane normative practice. Also it has drastically altered the nature of the architectural avantgarde. Its direction has progressed from the affected nihilism of the deconstructive era of the 1980s to paradigms of responsiveness. The basic premise of this work is that objects and events can be made to respond to the specifics of sites, the evolutionary emergent imperative, users and viewers, manufacturing processes and virtual tectonics. It is our contention that the impact of virtuality and advanced remote sensing devices should lead architects to reassess Surrealist and Pataphysical concepts of space. There are many similarities between these modes of creativity and the way an architect might perceive, interact and make connections between their architecture and the myriad of machinic and natural ecologies that constitute the sites of our contemporary architecture.
Neil Spiller and Phil Watson