Time
17:00, Wednesday 24 May 2023 (China)
10:00, Wednesday 24 May 2023 (UK)
Zoom
Zoom ID：212 106 8888
password：068888
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2121068888?pwd=akRaVXFmck9aRG52cnh2akVrQmxrdz09
Speaker
Dr Matthew Ozga-Lawn (Newcastle University)
Abstract
When we look at architectural images, we project ourselves into their representational spaces, creating an imaginative connection for us to explore and inhabit these constructed worlds. Robin Evans describes this performative, generative act of imaginative engagement as the ‘frontal subject’, in which spaces, particularly in abstract and discontinuous modes of drawing, are ‘completed’ via the projective imagination. Certain drawing types have established codes that anticipate this completion, such as the plan’s relationship to the section – a suspension of space between drawings that is also called ‘architecture of desire.’ On another front, installation is often considered in architecture as a minor mode of construction, whereas it is appreciated for its transformative effect in artistic practice over the 20th and early 21st centuries where drawing conventions have been reassessed and reinvented through installation art. In this talk, I’ll discuss installation as the framework for an encounter with disparate and varied architectural images, allowing for the construction of spaces of desire, and a reconsideration of the frontal subject.
Bio
Dr Matthew Ozga-Lawn is a Lecturer in Architecture at Newcastle University. He teaches and coordinates design and theory at BA and M Arch levels. He completed his Ph.D. by Creative Practice at Newcastle University in 2020 on the apparatus of the architectural drawing. An investigation through installation, it explores the perspectival underpinnings of architectural process in which a small Renaissance theatre in Italy is translocated into a real office at Newcastle. Matthew runs an experimental design platform Stasus with James A. Craig. Together they have been exhibited and published widely in venues including the Pamphlet Architecture series, arq (Architecture Research Quarterly), the Paper for Emerging Architectural Research (PEAR) and AD magazine.
Panelist
Dr Song Ke (Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen)
Dr. Zhu Haohao (Southeast University)
Chair
Jianfei Zhu (Newcastle University)
Gong Chenxi (China Academy of Art)
Host
China Academy of Art, Newcastle University
