•Moves: embed, inset, cast, occupy, frame, screen, underpin, brace, bore, hold, embrace, cut, slice, lean, balance, reach, weigh, excavate, drift, anchor, trap, scratch, fold, calibrate, scale, re-scale, flow, amplify, lock, puncture, scatter, dock, slip, compress, suspend, weave, sift, unground, survey, stamp, cleave, shift, cluster, distribute, bind, seep, counterweight, snare, project, striate, stretch, plug, squeeze, refigure, iterate, condense, lodge, excavate, overlay, materialise, animate, collect, incise, hinge, traverse, coil, perambulate, recode, recalibrate, graft, displace, resediment, interleave, edit, ossify, pleat, excise, orientate, laminate, deposit, pin, erode, weather, register, scan, score, oscillate, fluctuate, ruffle, nestle, warp, disfigure, contaminate, articulate, contour, clog, pattern, bunch, gather, huddle, pivot, tune, reverberate, enclose, encrust, shift, tilt, turn, settle … … •Thesis: the root of the word relates not only to the product: ‘the proposition’ but to the activity of its contextualisation: to put, to place. Here context would refer not only to the physical make up of a site but also, the political, social, theoretical, conceptual, mythological, technical, environmental, poetic and spatial potential of the ground ‘uncovered’ by the project’s personal research. •Key: a device for reading the city as map, guide, surveying tool. •Studio: the studio can be seen as a laboratory in that it immediately spatialises and materialises the work. In so doing it reveals, openings out and ‘uncovers’ new and unexpected relationships between the various elements of the work that cut across the boundaries of geography, classification, scale, motive and meaning. Any development of the work within this context will not only have to respond to the scale, materiality and tectonic language of work already introduced but also the physical presence of the work of others in proximity. In this sense the studio becomes an ‘other’ site, another ‘Island Territory’ that operates in parallel to the identified territories of Manhattan. •Articulation: the depiction of the thesis in terms of its scale in relation to the city, its spatial morphology, its programmatic content, its material, structural and constructional language and its response to the specific climatic and environmental condition of its context.
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