Midterm Class Notes

Sartian Look vs. Lacanian Gaze
Architectural screen or lens to clor sensor or screen what you want other to see
That else is being informed through your film
James Turell
What is editing / cut / shot
How do we isolate the parts of the film and how do they translate into architecture
What is the moment of translation
What are we allowed to see? Society
What should be veiled in society?
Could you tie into the idea as a blind spot
The brain will fill in the blind spot with memory
Relation of mechanism of perception to discover
Optics of the eye
Camera obscura
Vision subjectivity
Write down the verb of what each word is doing and define them in relation to what they are affecting in the rest of the composition
How can you make your shopping experience?
Architecture gives us our context
With hold the loose ephemeral quality of life within architecture
Piers show that there is a constantly shifting datum
How are abstractions articulated and used
Good that scale is not clear. A landscape condition can emerge from this
Give existential meanings to materials so that the viewer appreciates the space but is not sure why
Possible an orphanage that occurs after a disaster
Memories and current facts could drive the chess game that will be your program
Best thesis projects discover something
Set strong parameters to test
See the sight at different times/ seasons