The Lie that Tells a Truth

Abstract

The thesis begins by establishing a historical context for discourse surrounding Truth in architecture; highlighting, specifically, a reliance on vision. Vision, through its insistence on objectivity, creates the expectation that there is a Truth out there that can be known. The critique of Truth-by-way-of-vision is then performed through a methodology of the mythological trickster who operates through inversion and negation. The result is a design project that re-envisions a century old church in the Capitol Hill neighborhood as a theater.