Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/35696
- Title
- Paper architecure: design thinking and research
- Author/Creator
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Ostwald, Michael J.;
Tucker, Chris;
Chapman, Michael
- Institution
- The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, School of Architecture and Built Environment
- Description
- The title paper architecture is often reserved for designs that are intended to remain solely in some representational form (drawings or models) and have been produced in academia. These works are typically completed either as personal research into the nature of design or as an architectural response to an issue. Much paper architecture is also unbuildable and, because of this, it is freed of the traditional burdens of architecture (gravity, weather-proofing and functionality). Yet, by being free of these constraints paper architecture is obliged to bear additional burdens. In particular, it is argued that a responsible paper architecture should function as a bearer of meaning; it is encumbered with the weight of ethics, aesthetics, politics and philosophy. These are also some of the loads borne in academic research and design. The present text is concerned with designs that have been produced from within academic practice, not for the purpose of being constructed nor earning commissions, but primarily as an extension of personal and scholarly research. The paper presents a brief overview of the environments which promote unbuilt architecture before considering possible reasons and motives for producing it. The discussion considers and dismisses one explanation from Sigmund Freud for the production of such works and investigates alternative examples from Lebbeus Woods and Raimund Abraham that support a more Nietzschean rationale for paper architecture. The purpose of this analysis is to begin the process of identifying the particular burdens that paper architecture is most able to carry and that may be the most appropriate focus of design from within a university environment.
- Relation
- AASA 2005: Third International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia. Drawing Together: Convergent Practices in Architectural Education: Refereed Proceedings (Brisbane, Qld. 28-30 September, 2005)
- Relation
- http://www.architecture.uq.edu.au
- Date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Queensland / Queensland University of Technology / AASA
- Keyword(s)
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design and research;
architectural designs
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/35696
- Identifier
- ISBN:1864998415
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