Cameron Visiting Architect Lecturer, Thena Tak

This lecture will focus on architectural representations and their relationship to conceptual frameworks both within the architectural project and beyond to varying ontologies. The talk will consider the way in which architectural representations are not just embodiments of architectural knowledge, but also ways of seeing and being in the world. The deliberate questioning of what to represent and how to represent is a disciplinary responsibility that is companion to the act of world building. While the facile worlds of Pinterest, Midjourney, and freely accessible cad-block sites may eclipse the import and depth of the contemporary architectural image, its potentiality as a site for change and even refusal persists within the same hand. Through past student and creative work, the talk will share moments of such refusal as well as acceptance of our discipline’s responsibility to exercise mindfulness in what forms of being and sight are being privileged through the architectural image. FREE