Thesis / Point of Departure

The course starts with the following temperatures:

• Architecture and film have since the beginning of film inspired each other. Imagination and the space of imagination belongs to both architecture and film

• The production and representation of architectural space/body in film/video influences architectural practice

• New tools and techniques of production together with complex systems and arenas of communication further inspire and challenge our perception, understanding and development of architectural space/body

and establishes the arguments:

• Architecture’s traditional limitations are expanded

• Architectural space seeks its renewal in a discussion / the further comprehension of time/space or time/space/place relationships

raising the following questions:

• Given that architecture’s traditional limitations are challenged; how to perceive and understand architectural space when it occurs in that expanded environment?

• .. and how to free a new architectural space emerging from its existence in that expanded environment? 

Semester Task

The topic of this semester is Performativity - Boarded Bodies: 

• Architecture sets the stage for all human behavior. Moving imagery too creates, depicts and contains behavior; as narratives, phenomena and pure sensations just

Projected on screen or the medium it reflects upon, dwelling architecture and behaving yourself:

• How to perform within body & space morphologies (the real) using a camcorder (the tool) to extend and expand your body (acting the acted)?

  How to perform, sense and inform what already moves and so it moves us again? 

Body and Space Morphology - a syllabus

Body and space morphology is about the relationship between body and space.


How it manifests itself to be human in a room; outdoors, indoor, outside and inside, and within the manmade room. Alone or together, as one amongst the thousand, or as the thousand above the one.

Body and space morphology is about your body and the room you have within.


How it manifests itself to be human in architecture; what it inspires us to, and what it inspires as an architecture, towards an architecture. Seeing the offer that lies in architecture, the perversion of it, the infrastructure, the poesy, the container, the gate, darkness or light from darkness.

Body and space morphology is about meeting the wall.


How it manifests itself being human between the walls; knowing or not knowing the self, loneliness, longings and all that is imaginable. Seeing change, insights and outlooks, transparency and visibility, hideouts in an omnipresence of the stage. Seeing light come and go, seeing chairs and mirrors shrink and grow. Seeing how all things inhabit and capture the room. Beining between and at the walls. Looking at how they swallow and devour the things. Seeing how the walls become.

Body and space morphology is about the problem of body.


How it manifests itself to face the unknown; what presents itself as new or what just became in front of you. That which yet not has a name, although it shows itself, can be touched, heard, smelled and felt. That which stands sound and nevertheless can leave, that which can or cannot be moved; moves us.

Body and space morphology is about the distance in space.


How it manifests itself to stand still; moving just a little, approaching things nevertheless, every thing, to jump, penetrate, going into things, turning around, looking up and down, taking on the things, looking back and keep moving on.

Body and space morphology is about what we do not know and approach anyway.


Without a map there are only lines and without a compass directions just get more, then the word world is exploded before recognition has become, and it is resemblance and closeness that which implodes us astray. This you might endure and as you wish.

Body and space morphology is about “to act necessities”;

wanton and radically so, using your hands, using the other, using your head but not meaning a thing, acting abstract, acting the figure, autonomous it is and dirty it will get, serious too; ridiculous radically so.