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Alessandro Zambelli
Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
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Description:
Between certain disciplines of making (making is herein taken to mean artefact production but also design) there exist deep correspondences which are the result of their homologous development and analogous practices. In this sense, archaeology is a ‘making’ discipline and it has a homologous and analogous, but seldom explicit, relationship to the discipline of architecture. This research attempts to tease out such a relationship, drawing also upon art and anthropology to demonstrate the broadness of the application of my thesis. It contends that the drawing techniques of these disciplines both reflect and shape their fields of knowledge.
My thesis proceeds from the notion that reconstructive practices within archaeology may be usefully thought of as a form of design, and that building design might benefit from the narrative-making strengths of archaeology. I posit a form of practice which straddles the two. The products (mostly drawings, which I call scandalous artefacts) of these cross-disciplinary transgressions restore something of the historical fluidity of movement between the two disciplines.
What happens, then, if the drawing techniques of one discipline are used within another related discipline? Through a series of projects using architectural and archaeological modes of drawing, these ‘scandalous’ cross-disciplinary artefacts are explored. |
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