Searching for the Grandiose

• Main Author: Wallhammar, Johan
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: KTH, Arkitektur 2018
• Subjects: architecture; architectural theory; architectural history; grandiose; monumental; monument; architectural fantasy; fantasy; imaginary; capriccio; Etienne-Louis Boullée; Piranesi; Bruno Taut; colossal; memorial; edifice; imaginary structure; imaginary architecture; sigfried giedion; large; BIGNESS; dream; scale; ornament; limitless; Architecture; Arkitektur
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-228495

This project is called “Searching for the Grandiose” and consequently dives into this both historical and contemporary field of architecture. With a basis in architectural history, architectural theory and popular culture the project aims to understand and create grandiose architecture.  Both built and imaginary, this area of architecture has always inspired and pushed the boundaries for the possibilities of our profession. Furthermore, in the search for the grandiose also follows a possibility of the limitless – both economically, technically and mentally. In trying to design the grandiose, the architect must loosen the chains of reality and strive for the impossible and awesome. Consequently – a vast architectural fantasy is here created on an imaginary site with no restrictions in regards to size, program or economy.