Building Within The Drawing ( The Studio) : Immaterial Architecture

'Ordinary things contain the deepest mysteries'

The Social Condenser in Operation.
Five figures and a stature distributed evenly in its isotropic space; a picture of the socialized as opposed to the sociable.

Robin Evans,
Figures,Doors and Passages.

Building The Drawing

The drawing as analogue allows more subtle relations, of technique, material and process, to develop between drawing and building.

Immaterial Architecture
The Illegal Architect
Jonathan Hill

Oak Tree
Oil
Paper
Plaster
Rust
Sgratfito
Silence
Sound
Steel
Television
Weather

Frosted Light
Index of immaterial architectures

TRANSPARENCY : LITERAL AND PHENOMENAL
Colin Rowe, Robert Slutzky

Interactions of the Abstract Body
Josiah McElheny

Object Lesson
Interactive Abstract  Body (Square)
The Spatial Body (After Fontana)

Tracing Eisenman
Stan Allen
Indexical Characters

FABRIC=MASS+ FORM
Alan Chandler
The interest in fabric formwork is in its deployment in a building process, which is faster than conventional formwork. Fabric formwork is inherently more sustainable due to the minimising of both concrete and shuttering, and more radically, allows the constructor to intervene in the process of casting even as the cast is taking place.


ANTI OBJECT
Kengo Kuma
We are composed of matter and live in the midst of matter. Our objective should not be to  renounce matter, but to search for a form of matter other than objects.
What that form is called- ARCHITECTURE, GARDENS< TECHNOLOGY is not important.

ReThinking Matereriality
The engagement of mind with the material world
Elizabeth DeMarrais, Chris Gosden, Colin Renfrew

The Affordances of Things
Towards a  Theory of Material Engagement
Aesthetics, Intelligence and Emotions
Relationality of Mind and Matter

Material Agency
Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach
Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris

At The Potter's Wheel : An Argument for Material Agency
We should replace our view of cognition as residing inside the potter's head, with that of cognition enacted at the potter's wheel.

The Neglected Networks of Material Agency : Artefacts, Pictures and Texts

Material Agency as Cognitive Scaffolding

The Cognitive Life of Things
Material Engagement and the Extended Mind
Lambros Malafouris, Colin Renfrew

Minds, Things and Materiality
Michael Wheeler

Communities of Things and Objects : A Spatial Perspective
Carl Knappett

Imagining the Cognitive Life of Things
Edwin Hutchins

Things and Their Embodied Environments
Architectures for Perception
Structuring Perception through Material Artifacts
Charles Goodwin

Leach Pottery, Studio and Museum
A Potter's Book
Bernard Leach

Adventures of the Fire, Vessels Through Time
Ceramic Pavilion
People make space, and space contains people
Ceramic space and life

Gordon Baldwin
Objects For A Landscape
David Whiting
Vessels-Spaces that cannot be drawn, rather they  need to be experienced.
Imagining a Vessel in a Rock on a Beach, 2006,(charcoal on paper)

The Architecture of The Ceramic Vessel
The use of the vessel in the investigation of our world.
The exploration through the dichotomy of the analysis between exterior and interior, of one pot to another and from  the message they convey.

MATERIAL MATTERS
ARCHITECTURE
AND MATERIAL PRACTICE
Katie Lloyd Thomas

PLENUMS : RETHINKING MATTER, GEOMETRY AND SUBJECTIVITY
Peg Rawes

ARCHITECTURE
IN THE AGE  OF DIVIDED REPRESENTATION
The Question of Creativity in the Shadow of Production
Dalibor Vesely
The Nature of Communicative Space
Creativity in the Shadow of Modern Technology
The Rehabilitation of Fragment
Towards a Poetics of Architecture

The Projective Cast
Architecture and its Three Geometries
Robin Evans
Architects do not produce geometry, they consume it

Analysing ARCHITECTURE
Simon Unwin
Geometries of Being
Architecture as Making Frames
Space and Structure

Working Notes : Sensing Space a camp within a creative landscape

WORKING NOTES

IMMATERIAL ARCHITECTURES

MAKING IN THE LANDSCAPE

The House-sheds : Camping

There's more truth about a camp than a house. Planning laws need not worry the improvising builder because temporary structures are more beautiful anyway, and you don't need permission for them. There's more truth about a camp because that is the position we are in. The house represents what we ourselves would like to be on earth: permanent, rooted, here for eternity. But a camp represents the true reality of things: we're just passing through.

Roger Deakin

WILDWOOD

A Journey Through Trees

Russell Moreton, Speculative Spatial Practices

A reflective building is an echo not a statement.
Haptic devices/seating/dwelling in the landscapes of the mind.
Landscape assemblages and the significance of solitude.
The immensity/intimacy and its immediacy to the imagination.
Immensity is within ourselves  Bachelard 

The site a Raveningham offers the spatial practice of a social event and the opportunity to playfully engage with architectural forms, fine art surfaces and textures.

The sensing space, a sculptural assemblage created at Raveningham is an inquiry into 'making' and 'reflexivity' amongst a social landscape.

Supportive Material/Texts/Cyanotype Drawings from found objects

AFFECT

SENSATION / CAUSALITY

LIVING

THINKING

LOOKING

DRAWING and THE LAW OF STRATIFICATION, the inevitable results of the working of GRAVITY

STRATIFICATION OF RECOLLECTION / MEMORY OF THE WORLD. (A Land, J Hawkes )

FACTORING THE TACTILE CONDITIONS OF THE REAL WORLD into perceptual awareness

PERCEPTUAL psychologist, J.J. Gibson departs from 'the classical approach to depth or space' in favour of an ECOLOGICAL approach to VISUAL SPACE PERCEPTION, which take SURFACES and TEXTURE as its starting point.

Mediating the experience of LANDSCAPE

SITE / COLLAGE / COMPONENTS working/walking, developing a creative spatial syntax

COLOUR AS CONDUIT / PERCEPTUAL ENVIRONS / CRAFT MEDIA / IMPROVISATION

PIERCED / DAPPLED NATURAL LIGHT

DIFFERENTIATED SHADOW / SURFACE

EXTRAORDINARY MATERIALS / TECTONICS AND TEXTILES

INDEXICAL / GESTALT / VISUAL PERCEPTION

NETWORKS / RESOURCES / AGENCY for the potential of BUILDING

SCAFFOLDS / GAUZE / POCHE solids of a building/architectural plan

ABSENCES / INTERSECTIONS / GRIDS / MESHES / SPRAYS / MOTIFS

ACTUALITY

IMMATERIAL / REPETITION / SINGULARITY

ENCLOSURES / ITERATIONS / THINKING FORMS

MINIMALIST SPACES / INTERVALS, tuning objects to construct environments

A child 'concretizes' its existential space.

Dwelling, Reverberations, Epiphanic Instant, Gaston Bachelard.

Tidbury Ring, field drawings with cyanotype liquid on paper.

A Hut of Ones Own.

Heidegger for Architects.

Immaterial Architectures.

SENSING AND SPATIAL PRACTICE

EXPLORING THE LANDSCAPE, through the CORPOREAL EXPERIENCE of OTHERS

A STRUCTURE INTERPOSED between the sunlight and the interior space it encloses.

Poetic abstractions/Physical experience

Soft/Blurring boundaries between art and the everyday making/becoming

REFLEXIVITY / TRANSLUCENCY surfaces into an architectural presence

TEXTURES / LIMINALITY on the absence of material

STATIC ENVIRON / ANIMATED THROUGH THE BODY

THE ARCHITECTURAL SKIN / SURFACE, Blurring, revealing, masking, filtering,

ARCHITECTURAL FEATURE / WALL / ARCH / PASSAGE /

VISUAL TOOL / POCHOIR, hand coloured through stencils

SCULPTURAL ASSEMBLAGES, towards Speculative Forms/Expression

TECTONICS IN MAKING, and the tectonics of immateriality/traces hidden by building.

Concerned with bringing the material from its physical form into the meta-physical world.

PAVILION

FUSELAGE

THE CAMP/HUT

represents the true reality of things, Deakin.

The building as nothing more than an exposition of itself.

A subjective hypothesis, a drawing developed into an objectivity for experience/learning.

SITE, the undoing of PLACE

BRICOLAGE / HEURISTIC PRACTICE, Using things at hand, temporal, self constructions, becomings, mind forming explorations.

MOBILITY

MOVEMENT

TEMPORAL CONSTRUCTED SPACE

A building component, scaffold, joists and fixings, a surface of absences and the movement of others come together.

MAKING, from form to programme.

ABSURDITY

POLEMIC POETRY

CONFLICTING

DYSFUNCTIONAL

TETHERED FOLLY against a fabric of time.

ART AS INDETERMINATE, able to arrest perceptions into different states (becomings)

Stone Worlds

Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology

Architecture and Ritual, how buildings shape society.

Bought to Light

Photography and The Invisible 1840-1900

CURATORIAL / DEVICE / BENCH / INTERLOCATOR

Jannis Kounellis, Theatre, stage crew shifting actors during a performance.

Interconnected, between contexts, opening places between the social fabric.

Making spaces, expanding vision to create spaces 'between' in which to write ourselves.

CONTEXT AND CONSIDERATIONS / MAKING, EXHIBIT, VIEW

ART MUSEUM CULTURE

THE CONTEXT FOR CONTEMPORARY ART IS THAT WE MAKE, EXHIBIT AND VIEW

MUSEUM DIRECTOR, CURATOR, COLLECTOR, ARTIST

None of that means anything anymore. Artists are now more DIVIDUALISTIC. They discover themselves not by securing a role within the historic narrative of a chosen medium. But by INTERGRATING into a more DIFFUSE ECOLOGY that involves not only making art, but also putting on shows, publishing, organizing events, teaching, networking.

THE STUDIO is no longer a retreat, but it now INTEGRATES, IT IS ALL EXTERIOR.

THE NETWORK places the artist as a 'like' ITEM within an INTEGRATIVE INVENTORY or 

DATABASE.

The Scriptorium : Collage and Architecture

Theatre for Speculative Research/Architectural Model

Russell Moreton

UCA Interior Design MA

https://visualartpractices.wordpress.com/

http://russellmoreton.tumblr.com/

Anthropological Entanglements : Strange Tools/The Rings of Saturn

Walking into Emergent Landscapes : Covehithe Beach
The OLD WAYS, a JOURNEY ON FOOT, Robert Macfarlane
“ Walking was a means of personal myth-making, but it also shaped his everyday longings:
 Edward Thomas not only thought on paths and of them, but also with them.”


“To Thomas, paths connected real places but they also led out-wards to metaphysics, backwards to history and inward to the self. These traverses- between the conceptual, the spectral and the personal-occur often without signage in his writing, and are among its most characteristic events. He imagined himself in topographical terms.”

DSC_0585 Covehithe : Walking/Thinking/Physical Entanglements in the Landscape

Natural History : Dried Carnations

Blueprints : Anthropological Forms
Botanical traces with leper graves

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Collage Works : Architectural Studies. Outpost Studios, Norwich.

Affective Materials : Fragile and Bandaged Subjectivities

 

Painting and Clay Construction : Few boundaries are impenetrable : They are rather, semi-permeable membranes providing housing while allowing selective commerce

Orange School Graph Books, Harleston, Norfolk.

Elliptical Phenomena

Body/Landscape : Vessels and Patina

Site-Specificity/Spatial Practice

The vessel (making, thinking, subject) as both a historically grounded form, and a vehicle to examine abstract aspects of the physical body and the natural world.

The distinguishing characteristic of today's site-oriented art is the way in which both the art work's relationship to the actuality of a location (as site) and the social conditions of the institutional frame (as site) are subordinated to a discursively determined site that is delineated as a field of knowledge, intellectual exchange or cultural debate

Miwon Kwon 1997

Whilst temporary exhibitions can expand the scope of medium-specific discourse, they can also impose alternative, but equally restrictive frames

Participation, creating a bridge between socially engaged practice and the permanent collection

Expressing itself expressing 

Creating a conceptual and linguistic dexterity between absolutes, certainties, definitions

Dissolving the intellectual relevance, with its symbiotic relationship with utility to create 'vessels' beyond art and artifact

The strategy of making artworks as response

The Ceramic Object, by means of preservation and display becomes a vehicle/vessel for a social and historical narrative/entanglement/engagement

Making vessels, beyond the examining and intellectually impoverished questions 

A vessel is identified as such by its physical disposition, giving shape to the contents and clarifying what is inside and what is outside

Few boundaries are impenetrable

They are rather, semi-permeable membranes providing housing while allowing selective commerce

Like the vessel, the house shapes and nurtures the life contained inside

The Factory I build in the Tate is a place to discuss the transactions and transformations of Labour that Create Knowledge and Community

In the Factory we will examine skills and how we form Exchanges at Work , with ourselves and with others

Clare Twomey, Lead artist at Tate Exchange 2017

Post Studio Ceramics

Interfaces between Making-Makers-Museums

Exploring object engagement beyond the known historical models of clay practice

'Generate' Historical Material and Spatial Relations as they interacted with the work, and reflected on the role of the Museum/Hospital

Clare Twomey

Ceramics In The Environment 

An International Review

Janet Mansfield 2005

With Fire, Richard Hirsch

A Life Between Chance and Design (invites the unknown)

Scott Meyer 2012

Hirsch takes us to the heart of the interface between ageless earth and the spare evidence of the rhythm of human utility 

Raku as an Ideology

Breath-Energy-Immanence

Raku, A Review of Contemporary Work

Tim Andrews 1994

The Poetry of The Vessel

A calm invitation to thought and imagination

Chris Tyler

DSC_6918 Ceramic Slabs, wire and cloth on painting

Fragments from Augury Vessel Series

Geodesic Photographic Assemblage : Observatory #2

Translucency : Exposure to Time

Drawing is a philosophical trigger/Roni Horn : Creating modalities with their own experiential qualities

Drawing is a philosophical trigger

Roni Horn

Creating modalities with their own experiential qualities

Occurrent Asseblages : Knowledge Objects

Choreographing

Events and Demolition

Trace and Encounter

Data Captured/Visualizations

Brian Massumi refers to all arts as 'occurrent' because any and every perception, artefactual or natural is just an experiential event

It is an event both in the sense that it is happening, and in the sense that when it happens something new transpires

Semblance and Event, Activist Philisophy and the Occurrent Arts

Brian Massumi 2011

COLOUR/Mapping : as conduit for Spatial Agencies

The Film Stilled : Photograms/Assemblages/ Reading Texts

The Film stilled, Raymond Bellour pdf, Chris Marker

Spatial Apparatus : Pinhole Photography/Cyanotype,  Tate Turbine Hall.

From the photogram to the pictogram : on Chris Markers La Jetee, Reda Bensmaia.
Camera Obscura, Sept 1990.

Nostalgia and La Jetee
Karla Huebner

The Mirrored Abbey :  The Photographic Aesthetics of Decay

Nothingness, Nostalgia and the Absence of Reason.
The Aesthetics of Decay, Dylan Trigg,

The Custodians, Richard Cowper 1976.
https://russellmoreton.wordpress.com/

Humanity : An Emotional History
Stuart Walton. 2004

Fear
Anger
Disgust
Sadness
Jealousy
Contempt
Shame
Embarrassment
Surprise
Happiness

Camera/Room Obscura : Physical Contact Print
Light Writing : Surface Architectures
Kilquhanity, Scotland.

Sculptural Form/Everyday Interior (Bramdean)
Scarred Time/Photographic Surface/Negative

"Synagoga and Ecclesia" : Helena Elferova

The Leper Hospital/Morn Hill, Winchester : Anthropomorphic Geography/Landscape on Photographic Ground

A few feet below the ground a thick line of rock would mark us off from all that had gone before. Condensed into that six-inch sooty layer would be our cities, vehicles, roads, bridges, weapons. Also, all sorts of chemical compounds not found in the previous geological record.
 Ian McEwan : The Children Act, 2014.

  Against SPACE : Place-Movement-Knowledge
 "I wish to argue, in this chapter against the notion of space. Of all the terms we use to describe the world we inhabit, it is the most abstract, the most empty, the most detached from the realities of life and experience."
 Tim Ingold

Environments

Land

Earth
Pastures

Country
Ground
Landscape

Indoors
Open

Sky


Air

VISITORS Clip — Behind the Scenes

Patti Smith | My Blakean Year | LIVE from the NYPL

And What Shoulder And What Art

Could Twist The Sinews Of Thy Heart

William Blake

Patti Smith Complete 1975-2006

Temporal Perspectives : Urban Space and Place

Architectutally
Speaking
Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday
edited by Alan Read

Thirdspace  : expanding the scope of the geographical imagination
Edward W. Soja

Space-time and the politics of location
Doreen Massey

Space and Place
The Perspective of Experience
Yi-Fu Tuan

Experiential Perspective
Space, Place, and the Child
Body, Personal Relations, and Spatial Values
Spaciousness and Crowding
Spatial Ability, Knowledge, and Place
Architectural Space and Awareness
Time in Experiential Space
Intimate Experiences of Place
Attachment to Homeland
Visibility : the Creation of Place
Time and Place


for
space
Doreen Massey

Living in Spatial Times
Instantaneity/depthlessness

A Relational Politics of The Spatial
Making and Contesting time-spaces