M.Arch II Thesis at Princeton
2022-2023
Advisors: Stan Allen, M. Christine Boyer
Exhibition: a83 gallery, New York, 2023
Seamless is a fusion of programs, a softening of the edge, an embracement of the advent of the hyper-real, and an exploration of technologically enhanced uncanniness to construct domesticity in a world with increasingly loose boundaries. This thesis proposes to investigate the instrumentality of images, to extend montage techniques from two-dimensional visuality into three-dimensional space-making. It uses meta-montage to understand culture, to storyboard, and to define a new way of living.
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