History: Architecture and Film

PParsons 5052 | 201130 | Faculty: Mark Rakatansky

In architectural discourse today the concept of performance extends throughout the discipline: with the move away from autonomous design toward projective practice and new performative modes of parametric design. Adaptable iterative systems that enable performances of tectonic and programmatic variation have been in use from the beginnings of architecture, with explicit parametric play by known architects such as Giulio Romano and Andrea Palladio already evident in the Renaissance, suggesting new evolutions for the 21st century. The question arises as to how design will show itself to be in the midst of this performance, in the act of its act. In this seminar we will explore the ways design elements and assembly systems, program and spatial types, may be developed as characters, as actors within the spatial drama of interiors and exteriors. We will explore design as a serial development of Parsonsnes spatial, social, psychological Parsonsnes enacted throughout the built environment at all the range of scales: from its urban siting to the relations between its spaces to a given interior space to the gestural details of its design elements.Open to: All university degree students