Communicating through an Urban Partition Miyagi Vertical Studio- Spring 2008 Analysis of Oedipus complex in Architecture Boehlke, Joshua Student projects Architectural education Urban design 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 New York, New York, USA Inwood Hill Park Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Communicating through an Urban Partition
Miyagi Vertical Studio- Spring 2008
Analysis of Oedipus complex in Architecture
Boehlke, Joshua
Student projects
Architectural education
Urban design
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
New York, New York, USA
Inwood Hill Park
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY