Analogues - by Edward Ogosta Architecture
Hello,
Today it's all about words and literary associations!
Having studied literature during my college years, and being passionate about metaphors, symbols and all figures of speech in general, I now find myself in a position where my interest in literature suddenly evolves and seeks to crystallise in an architectural form. What happens when the worlds of literature and architecture meet? I'm afraid I do not yet know the answer, but my project is aiming to be an exploratory illustration of that, and the journey so far seems to be as fascinating as the adventures of the characters in some of my childhood stories.
During my recent explorations of how others might have addressed a similar concept, I recently came across a conceptual project developed by Edward Ogosta Architecture, an architectural practice from California.
Analogues is a conceptual project born out of the desire to prove the fact that architectural ideas can develop through words and different word associations, rather than images or shapes, as they usually do. Inspired by Richard Serra's Verb List, the Edward Ogosta Architecture team developed several lists of words, each based around one fundamental idea, such as space, time or furniture. By associating words from different lists, they created innovative, and challenging hybrid-concepts, such as light as cluster, or wave as object, some of which they decided to illustrate graphically, as a way of proving their validity as visual ideas. Isn't this entirely fascinating?
Here are a couple of photographs illustrating these ideas (all photographs belong to Edward Ogosta Architecture):
Head onto the Edward Ogosta Architecture website to read more about the process they followed, as well as enjoy some beautiful diagrams illustrating these hybrid-concepts. (Go to website.)
As a follow-up to this experimental approach, the team also designed the Hybrid Office, an immersive, yet incredibly playful space to inhabit some of these challenging concepts. Read more about this on the team's website. (Go to website.)
