Seeking Silence Through GARAP: Architecture, Image, and Connotation
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ucin13065015092021-08-03T06:14:49Z Seeking Silence Through GARAP: Architecture, Image, and Connotation Elkin, Daniel K. Architecture visual culture baudrillard barcelona pavilion connotation aesthetics material culture <p>The valuation process within architecture attaches connotative meaning to productions of architectural practice, especially imagery created by the architect. Architecture, through the written word and escalating masculinization of drawing and imagery, transforms visual aesthetic image objects of marks on a page into connoted aesthetic image objects with possible consequences and meaning in the real world. Architects understand this process as imparting meaning to their work and differentiating their practice from the aesthetic praxis of art, understood to be solely aesthetic.</p><p>However, the relationship between imagery and the consequences illustrated thereby is not so simple in the time of mass-publication of imagery and the simulation of architectural outcomes. The connoted aesthetic objects created by the architect, through repetition and publication, become re-feminized into visual aesthetic objects, carrying along the consequential information imparted by the architect and transforming that information into atrophied signs or consumer demographics. The aesthetic of the architectural image/artifact and consequences or narratives become equated, threatening the reductive degradation of both. Connotation of architectural images, therefore, can work at cross purposes to both architecture and the narratives it attempts to connote.</p><p>This effect is increasingly prominent, this research will argue, as the indicative property of architectural images- the possibility of construing virtual images as reality- increases through high verisimilitude images, images attempting to include non-visual information, and images attached to socio-cultural claims. This paper argues the possibility that images of these types can insure a connotative connection between aesthetic and narrative that equates the two, allowing the posited feminization. </p><p>This research will analyze the connection between visual culture and material culture as basis of the connotation of architecture, and propose possibilities for the interrogation of the connotative apparatus. In conjunction, this research shall include a body of design research work investigating imagery and image processes, culminating in a connotative perversion of Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion and the connoted imagery attached thereto. Through the foiled exercises of academic research and structured design play, this research shall seek the limits of the connotation of architectural images, and discover the tentative connection between speculative imagery and consequences thereof</p> 2011-08-04 English text University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306501509 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306501509 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: some rights reserved. It is licensed for use under a Creative Commons license. Specific terms and permissions are available from this document's record in the OhioLINK ETD Center. |
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