Abstract:
This book is a series of tales of enchantment, a collection of promises, desires of an enchanted ecstatic. They acknowledge that we live in a world of continuing metamorphosis, with shifty creatures, intensities, and movements which can surprise, and delight. The book itself is a shifty creature, a multiplicity of associations not to be read as a linear narrative or argument, but as an exploration of ways of engaging with and fostering sensations of an enchanted world. It does not create buildings, but is a series of architectural ecstasies and promises. It proceeds as a series of fleshy words which hope to exert bodily force, and creative acts and processes in search of pleasure, enchantment and freedom. The writing in this thesis intentionally shifts between between creative and theoretical practices of writing. In blurring these boundaries it attempts to tell tales of enchantment and delight, whilst softly developing a speculation on the importance of enchantment for seeing things differently, and for moving us to act differently, within architectural discipline.
