Oedipus Complex in Architecture Miyagi Vertical Studio- Spring 2008 Zheng, BinBin Student projects Architectural education Architectural history Analysis of Oedipus complex in Architecture. While the term "Oedipus Complex" used in the field of psychoanalysis has its own specific definitions, as a topic of discussion in the school of architecture, this studio will explore the relationship between an idea by an architect and ideas preceding his/her time, as parents of such idea. How does an architect deal with history of architecture? Does he or she pay sincere homage to it, replicate it, or make a dialogue with it, or pretend that history has nothing to do with their creativity? While some architects make specific, often literal, reference to historically important buildings by incorporating visual reference identical or similar to buildings of their interest, for others, the relation to history is less about apparent similarity of appearance, but about the reframing of the relationship itself. The "Oedipus Complex" in architecture can be defined as an architect's conscious effort to exploit history as a paradigm to reposition his or her work in the present. Such relation to history operates more as strategic situational reframing rather than as visual self-justification. School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2008) Miyagi, Ben. Faculty 2008 Digital images JPEG2000 21st century Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Oedipus Complex in Architecture
Miyagi Vertical Studio- Spring 2008
Zheng, BinBin
Student projects
Architectural education
Architectural history
Analysis of Oedipus complex in Architecture. While the term "Oedipus Complex" used in the field of psychoanalysis has its own specific definitions, as a topic of discussion in the school of architecture, this studio will explore the relationship between an idea by an architect and ideas preceding his/her time, as parents of such idea. How does an architect deal with history of architecture? Does he or she pay sincere homage to it, replicate it, or make a dialogue with it, or pretend that history has nothing to do with their creativity? While some architects make specific, often literal, reference to historically important buildings by incorporating visual reference identical or similar to buildings of their interest, for others, the relation to history is less about apparent similarity of appearance, but about the reframing of the relationship itself. The "Oedipus Complex" in architecture can be defined as an architect's conscious effort to exploit history as a paradigm to reposition his or her work in the present. Such relation to history operates more as strategic situational reframing rather than as visual self-justification.
School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2008)
Miyagi, Ben. Faculty
2008
Digital images
JPEG2000
21st century
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY