| dc.description.abstract | While we are constantly immersed in a world driven by efficiency and
immediacy, the result is a collapsed distance of seduction and desire and a
diluted connection to making and the arts.
Venice, California was intended to emulate the character and stories of
Venice, Italy, to create an emphasis on the arts and fashion in the United
States. In the dawn of our consumer culture, this intention was lost along
the way. Journeys through architecture, whether they are in dreams
or waking reality, can inspire meaningful and memorable cadence and
creation that restores empathy and connects to stories by maintaining an
interpretive, participatory distance for those who encounter them. Based
on paradigmatic influences from Octavio Paz’s interpretation of Marcel
Duchamp’s, The Large Glass, the quest for love in Hypnerotomachia
Poliphili, the Janus Head, and inspirations from evocative writings in Joseph
Brodsky’s Watermark, this thesis proposes a campus of maker spaces and
galleries for fashion and art that connects users to stories, culture, and each
other while on a journey through the buildings and site.
Like Duchamp’s The Large Glass, the buildings on the campus act as a hinge
to bring stories together and open layered spaces of wonder and desire.
Constructed by meaningful tectonics and materials, the architectural frame
houses a path that intrigues a cognizant involvement with spatial encounter,
aiming to inspire and awaken others to make and create art, fashion, and
architecture. | en_US |
