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ARCH 793AB: Tactical Techniques

Instructor: John Southern

Architecture’s Transformative Journey: Exploring Meaningful Transmogrification

In order to create meaningful architecture, one must apply critical tools that obstruct and metamorphose traditional architectural form and materiality. Using methods of transformation and transmogrification as a foundation for design, it is possible to demonstrate how meaning revamps in relation to context. Utilizing the vernacular of the simple forest cabin, one is able test their understanding of architectural syntax through the operations of swapping, souping, and swouping. These operations explore form and the significance of evolution within the forest cabin vernacular. Enabling us to demonstrate and develop our own architectural language. Creating a meaning that is unique to oneself.