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ryan glick: Architecture is Flat
advisors:
Dana Cupkova, Mark Morris
Introduction
ryan glick
This thesis challenges two dimensional flatness to act as the primary driver of the formal and conceptual formwork for architectural production. It is my bias that I experience the world as a series of fragmented views. Each view contains the generative potential towards the production of architecture This thesis operates as an methodology which develops composition as a catalyst for this production. The present architectural discourse is focused on volumetric production as a means of conceptual and formal generation. The architectural discourse is becoming increasingly homogenized through this volumetric object-based mode of production. This object-centric obsession has lead to the degradation of artistic architectural invention while simultaneously reducing differences in conceptual identity . left
01-06_Site photos 07-10_Analysis through painting right
01-03_Process diagrams 04_Shear composition model
Historically, architectural production has explored the compositional world through a relationship with the painting. This relationship developed out of a link with a two dimensional medium which allows for relationships to be established by the viewer. The canvas allows for ambiguity to be created within a flat field while allowing an interplay between texture, surface, space, color, form edge and shadow. The current polemic of volumetric 2012
MArch Thesis