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New Entropy| Exposing Architectural Disorder in Contemporary Spaces

by Carolyn Gillen




Institution: Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
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Year: 2016
Keywords: Art criticism; Architecture
Posted: 02/05/2017
Record ID: 2134551
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Abstract

In an effort to unveil the underlying potency of architecture I take banal structures and give them a dynamic intervention. Basic architectural forms are manipulated in a way that alters our relationship to them. Once ordinary, the forms are now anomalistic. It is through this surreal reinterpretation of form and space I hope people are encouraged to examine the world around them. By unconventionally combining materials associated with contemporary building practice, or reinterpreting their functionality, I aim to displace the familiar and emphasize the tension inherent in places we think we know.