Book Designs as Architectural Projects
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University of Greenwich
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 17549-MCO-MA1
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- A multi-component output
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- This multi-component output is made up of 2 components, an article titled ‘Publishing as Architectural Practice’ published in June 2017, and an exhibition that I designed and curated in April 2017 titled ‘Paginations: Book Designs as Architectural Projects’. This research examines how certain examples of book design can be understood as a form of architectural design investigation. This research was instigated with a conference paper that I presented at RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) at the Research Matters Symposium in April 2016. By explicitly defining this practice as being ‘architectural’, this research hopes to supplement the long history of theories of the book with an original contribution from the perspective of the architectural designer. The research is original as it speculates on how book design and media arts more broadly can advance by engaging with architectural and spatial concepts. The article and exhibition survey, categorise and theorise a range of books from the fields of Art, Architecture, Design, Literature and Sequential Art/Comics that are critically examined in relation to architectural concerns: material manifestations of spatial concepts. The article articulates these concerns and speculates on the potential futures of the book, whereas the exhibition allows the viewer to directly engage with the material of the books discussed in the article. This research is undertaken concurrently with a number of book designs and exhibition designs that I have undertaken since 2014 that aim to put these theories into practice, as discussed in the ‘Publishing as Architectural Practice’ article. The research aims to expand the notion of how architectural practice and the role of the architect might be understood in relation to media arts, and to encourage a greater criticality around the way in which architecture, and space more generally, can be investigated in relation to publishing.
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