This thesis uses the perception of senses and the synthesis of standardized technologies to construct a novel experimental material pedagogy of architecture.
Standardisation and consolidation in professional architectural education has led to its homogenized state. As a result, material and materiality, is subjugated to the form, function and technic bias of functionalist objectives and technocratic agendas. From this, the emerging idealized material standards not only construct monopolies, but also threaten diversity.
To test this thesis, the core of this project opposes form as a mechanism of [material] control. By using non-standardized material experimentation as a generating strategy to blur form, these experiments inform and stimulate learning and knowing from a physical experiment first rather than representation.
Thesis Exhibition at the Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York
I am interested in two fundamental issues that I believe manifest as the first step towards building a material pedagogy as such. First, the inspiration of the senses, as a “universal” stimulus of knowledge and second, tools of information as the “uniform” obsession of variant technologies.
By drawing potential material territories, inventing material manipulations, and revealing the animate nature of technologically inspired process, this study provides the context to question, analyze and transform novel materials into blurred forms for study, and eventually, speculates on their application.
Advisor: Mersiha Veledar with Dean Nader Tehrani, Lauren Kogod, Anna Bokov, Michael Young and James Lowder The Cooper Union | Summer 2018
Senses and Technologies - Universal and Uniform
2. Drawing* Material Territories.
*To Draw, refers to a creative process, which simultaneously extracts and constructs information.
3. Material, Form and Curricula - Radical Pedagogies
