Velvet Garage Narratives of an Education in Architecture
If you had to share the work you’ve produced in architecture school with your family, what would you say about it? Could you speak about it with the same conviction you do in front of your jury at a final review? Would the things you value in architecture translate to someone who doesn’t study or pr...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022
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| author | González-Cervantes, Marianna |
| author2 | O’Brien Jr., William |
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| description | If you had to share the work you’ve produced in architecture school with your family, what would you say about it? Could you speak about it with the same conviction you do in front of your jury at a final review? Would the things you value in architecture translate to someone who doesn’t study or practice it?
Velvet Garage : Narratives of an Education in Architecture is an exploration into many things, most obviously garages and architecture education, but perhaps, most importantly, the unexpected repercussions of studying architecture : spatially, technically, but also emotionally. This thesis admittedly looks backward as it reflects on old work and past experiences, some dating up to 10 years, but it does so by re-representing them in a new way that attempts to talk about architecture differently, in a more accessible manner.
The thesis, then, is two-fold: As a response to the current remote conditions we find ourselves in due to COVID-19, this thesis transforms the domestic garage of my childhood home in El Paso, TX into a center of architectural production, where the “Velvet Garage” then allows for the reframing of architecture pedagogy as visual narratives in the form of a short film that incorporates both found and designed objects.
This thesis believes that we unconsciously embed ourselves in our work, but that our work is also embedded in us. When we share our work, we also share a part of ourselves, and when we can’t, we fail to communicate a large part of what makes us who we are. Velvet Garage : Narratives of an Education in Architecture attempts to share stories that haven’t ever been shared before with the very new audience of my own family. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1393692022-01-15T03:19:16Z Velvet Garage Narratives of an Education in Architecture González-Cervantes, Marianna O’Brien Jr., William Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture If you had to share the work you’ve produced in architecture school with your family, what would you say about it? Could you speak about it with the same conviction you do in front of your jury at a final review? Would the things you value in architecture translate to someone who doesn’t study or practice it? Velvet Garage : Narratives of an Education in Architecture is an exploration into many things, most obviously garages and architecture education, but perhaps, most importantly, the unexpected repercussions of studying architecture : spatially, technically, but also emotionally. This thesis admittedly looks backward as it reflects on old work and past experiences, some dating up to 10 years, but it does so by re-representing them in a new way that attempts to talk about architecture differently, in a more accessible manner. The thesis, then, is two-fold: As a response to the current remote conditions we find ourselves in due to COVID-19, this thesis transforms the domestic garage of my childhood home in El Paso, TX into a center of architectural production, where the “Velvet Garage” then allows for the reframing of architecture pedagogy as visual narratives in the form of a short film that incorporates both found and designed objects. This thesis believes that we unconsciously embed ourselves in our work, but that our work is also embedded in us. When we share our work, we also share a part of ourselves, and when we can’t, we fail to communicate a large part of what makes us who we are. Velvet Garage : Narratives of an Education in Architecture attempts to share stories that haven’t ever been shared before with the very new audience of my own family. S.M. 2022-01-14T15:07:28Z 2022-01-14T15:07:28Z 2021-06 2021-07-27T20:21:35.696Z Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139369 In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted Copyright retained by author(s) https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/ application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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