City

Support structure
Primarily resists
Lateral forces

Hard-edge linear forms are augmented by light.

“I never met a straight line I did not like.” – Carmen Herrera

Nexus of past
Present and future
Possibilities

A complex of experiences require an active engagement with what is: the interconnectedness between all physical things that determine their particular nature.

“The first analysis of an actual entity, into its most concrete elements, discloses it to be a concrescence of prehensions, which have originated in its process of becoming.” – Alfred North Whitehead

City matrix
Static substances
Dynamic processes

Here we approach organized complexity as an event in the process of becoming.

“The final realites of the world are not hard, irreducible, stubborn facts, but are events, happenings, occurrences. The entire character of actuality is to be described by these.” – Alfred North Whitehead

Sign reflection
Interior shop
Exterior world

The static shop sign and the dynamic reflection create a dialectical sway.

“The street is a stage for the everyday.” – Walter Benjamin

Inclination longitude
Imaginary quantities
Coordinate axis

Working on art museum display electromagnetic radiation interactions

“We don’t all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination.” – Janelle Monae

Stewart’s
Pawn shop
TV’s laptops

Standing on the outskirts of the scene, geometrical organization emerges from a place of deep thought and great meaning.

“Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?” – Steven Wright

Multifaceted mashup
Spatio-temporal
Dataset

Social and urban emergent relationships develop across the urban spectacle.

“Exploratory visual analysis that proceeds in an iterative fashion can be a highly effective means of preliminary investigation.” – Jo Wood

Captivating interplay
Facade exploration
Lived experience

The sharp angles and clean lines evoke a sense of order and precision.

“Consciousness is not a mere empty stage on which things appear… it is itself a living process.” – Edmund Husserl

With the world
Intertwined nature
Perception embodiment

Engaging with existence through a phenomenological lens offers a deeper understanding of the ways in which we constitute experience.

“As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past for a future which is essentially unknown.” – Norman Foster

Age of leveling
Abstract uniformity
Stark skyscraper

The city may evoke feelings of angst and alienation, but it also serves as a reminder of the power of the subjective.

“Abstract thought…is like a spider that spins its own web and is then entangled in its own product.” – Soren Kierkegaard