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The Fourth Wall of Architecture (2016)

Bart L. Decroos
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This work is an attempt to combine the fields of architecture, critical theory, and literature. It deals with the question of how an architectural artefact develops its meaning within a larger discourse through its image, and how this relates to the everyday life of the physical space of the artefact. The work has been developed by translating certain theoretical ideas to a fictional setting in order to explore these ideas through the medium of literature. The theoretical starting point thus takes on the form of characters, dialogues, and events within a specific architectural environment in an attempt to relate these diverse ideas to one another and to the physical space. The resulting short stories have then been translated to images of physical spaces, which try to detect these theoretical ideas on the level of the space itself. The complete work comprises three short stories, each dealing with a different type of architecture: the single-family house, the hotel room, and the office space.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsarchitecture, Literature, literary theory, postmodernism
date01/01/2016
published28/04/2016
last modified28/04/2016
statuspublished
share statuspublic
affiliationK.U. Leuven, Faculty of Architecture, campus Sint-Lucas Brussels
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/211221/212467
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.211221
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue10.


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212470 Thomas More Development Group - The Fourth Wall of Architecture - Cover Thomas More Development Group All rights reserved
212469 Thomas More Development Group - The Fourth Wall of Architecture - Cover Thomas More Development Group All rights reserved
211283 Thomas More Development Group - The homeliness of hotel rooms Thomas More Development Group All rights reserved
211280 Thomas More Development Group - The reality effect of an office building Thomas More Development Group All rights reserved
211224 Thomas More Development Group - The most photographed suburban neighbourhood Thomas More Development Group All rights reserved

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