Abstract:
Every architect composes in a unique manner. Different architects, practices and designers, pursue design processes according to different aesthetic preferences. Those preferences relate from materiality, tectonics, spatial compositions and other forms of facets that we consider in the discipline of architecture. This thesis investigates the influence of compositional predispositions inside the design practice of an MArch(Prof) student.
The vehicle of this investigation is the author’s practice. The purpose of the research is to expose and discuss personal predispositions as a way from transitioning from academic to professional practice. Understanding a predisposition enables a more meaningful contribution as a practitioner in each professional project and design team. This stands in contrast to the author’s understanding and experience in professional practice as a graduate, where one’s predisposition is relegated or surreptitiously placed into a project.
This research sits within a field of recent graduates that explored their predispositions as MArch (Prof) students and other experienced professional practitioners who discuss their approach and contribution in the field of architecture, such as John Wardle.
This research’s value provides a process in which others can follow to be honest about their approach and clearly understand their dispositions. It achieves this by removing the complications of site, client, budget, larger context, and instead focusing on creating that intrigues the person.
The approach towards this research is through autonomous model making. By cataloguing the production of work into a taxonomy, it aims to create a dialogue of the decisions and potential development. This approach becomes a method of exposing and implicitly discussing one’s compositional predispositions.
