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Project

Architecture without Architecture

Architecture is impossible to be exhibited by itself, to be completely experienced without observer being present.
Using another medium can represent some aspects of it, but there is always something missing. Based on my
past work, I want to elaborate the topic of architectural representation turning into another art object, made with
the same elements but with the potential to grow into different significance and architectureless aesthetics. I am
interested to explore if this art object can be experienced as an original creation, apart from the architecture that
it came out of. I am curious to explore what happens when initial spatial characteristics and essential realness of
architecture back off in order to make room for its abstract and poetic qualities, using the medium of
photography. Can architects create 'architecture' using only the medium of photography and not bricks or other
building materials? Is there architecture where there are no buildings?
I would also like to explore architectural presence in sequences of photographs that don't have any buildings on
them. By using the medium of photography, its precision and exactness, I would like to examine what
characteristics of architecture are readable on photographs without architecture and which ones are lost in
translation.

Date:15 Dec 2016 →  21 Oct 2019
Keywords:photography, architecture
Disciplines:Architectural engineering, Architecture, Interior architecture, Architectural design, Art studies and sciences
Project type:PhD project