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Washateriacafeteria laundromatautomat
(1999)
Using the idea of an architectural design thesis as praxis, two buildings were designed to both talk about and perform the thesis. The ideas at work in the project include consideration of objects, people, places and things ...
protoHouse: Searching for new form
(2001)
The end of the twentieth century is marked with the debut of the information age and the beginning of a global society. The dynamic properties of urban landscapes throughout the world are escalating to new levels in direct ...
Boxes
(2000)
"Actually a box, in appearance, is purely and simply a right-angled parallel-epiped, but when you look at it from within it's a labyrinth of a hundred interconnecting puzzle rings. The more you struggle the more the box, ...
Amplified encounters at high speed
(2011)
This thesis expands upon the dialogue between speed and architecture, investigating how architecture reinterprets the linear city, originally defined by the continuous fabric of the freeway and more recently reconfigured ...
Convergence
(2000)
Spaces in video. Layering of spaces. Interaction of layers. Edits of interactions. Events as edits. Layers of events. Light from televisions. Televisions as bodies. Bodies in places. Places of interactions. Interactions ...
Infinite projections for atopic landscapes
(1995)
Atopia: without landscape, place.
Methods are explored for both recording and activating atopia: by introducing the subject, rather than the object; and through projections, both literal and figurative, in order to create ...
Materializing the invisible: A return to form-making
(1996)
In an era of information technology and dematerialization, our sense for materiality is significantly jeopardized. It is particularly disturbing when placed within the context of architecture--a mode of form-making typically ...
Architectural discourse and practice at the end of the twenthieth century (Gilles Delueze)
(1996)
A flaw in the use of difference in the semiotic basis of deconstruction is exposed. The finer grained, flexible notion of difference described by Gilles Delueze is inserted in its place. Freed from illustrating difference ...
A dynamic figure ground
(1994)
The question this thesis explores is what could the relationship be between subject, the participant, and object, architectural form, other than fixed. This question arises from a consideration of the relative value of the ...
High and low: Contemporary architecture and popular culture (Elvis Presley, Tennessee)
(1992)
In America, the debate between high modern art and certain aspects of popular culture (most often referred to as kitsch) has been raging since the 1960's. Now, in the 80's and 90's, the dialogue has been extended to include ...