Rendering architecture through a consciousness accommodated by a collapse of time in space; presented at Digital-Cultural Ecology Conference,Bristol

This paper evaluates the idea of an architectural phenomenology recasting history as the experiential content of speculative architecture. Such work and research is structured by architectures unique mode of intellectuality where the intellectual act cannot be separated from aesthetic experience. To underpin this exploration, drawings have been developed in symmetry to this writing presenting a protocol for producing architecture through the recollection of history and explore the possibilities of the continuation of historical experiential spatial qualities in new architectonic constructions. Such drawing practice allows for various levels of perception (personal viewing), strategised to avoid post facto representations in favour of using drawing as a primary investigative resource. At the same time historical archetypical elements are used freed from historical classification and taxonomy. The resulting practice thus holds a paradoxical emphasis on the congruence between intuition and tradition. With this paper I aim to indicate this emphasis to be a potential driver for a critical contemporary architectural practice.status: accepte