PhD - Newfoundism
2021
University of Newcastle
School of Architecture + Built Environment
It addresses the idea that architectural design continues to be haunted by the modernist canon of 'Tabula Rasa': that its best ideas begin with gestures upon a clean and empty slate. This 20th-century concept has penetrated architecture in Western society as a cultural norm.
As we navigate a post-pandemic era heavily influenced by digital disruption and artificial intelligence, this study explores this tension between the gesture and the copy, and the role that the intuitive assembly of parts of existing buildings plays in expanding creative horizons and the practice of architecture.