Architecture on the Couch

Abstract

This thesis explores architecture as an assemblage of realities. The rise in virtual and cybernetic technologies rapidly increases the convergence of multiple realities, revealing different ways of perceiving the environment. This shift in spatial perception presents the opportunity to re-imagine architecture beyond established dualisms and narratives of history. Perceptions of reality are entangled with internal bias, constantly molding and reconfiguring the architectural experience. How can architecture tap into psychodynamics to better understand effects of the built environment? This project uses digital media to experiment with converging realities and speculate possibilities for architecture which prioritizes emotion and perception. Working from psychoanalytic, cybernetic, and assemblage theories, a series of videos demonstrate the ways un-realities bleed into and become reality itself.