Designing The Place via Text: Imaginary Places in Design Studio

Authors : SERAP DURMUŞ ÖZTÜRK, NİLGÜN KULOĞLU

Pages : 13-26

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Publication Date : 2017-12-15

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The aim of this article to discuss the relationship between text and representation in the context of literature and architecture. In this direction, the article exemplifies that narrative and representation of narrative subjects over studio products. “The Dictionary of Imaginary Places” is used as a tool in interdisciplinary knowlege production. Scenarios which are produced over the places that takes place in the book are an example of a fiction in design studio both as conceptual and as formal. The studio which is performed with third-grade architecture students, carries out with 2 coordinators and 17 students, for this article it includes 6 student projects to exemplify it.   Nowadays, designing with the text has a crucial potential to be a representation tool in creating place and space. Tool and method togetherness of a narrative in design studio, make the role of student important in architectural education as a unique approach. With this aspect, the article is a creative example of architectural representation of narratives concerning place.   Human, language, concept, place/space -the common topics of literature and architecture- are effective in reproducing the relationship between text and representation as architectural knowledge. In conclusion, textual representation of architecture with its rich meaning possibilities has a claim to provide a new perspective that enables an interdisciplinary method model in design education.
Keywords : Literature and Architecture, place and space, text, design studio

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