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Abstract
Para-architecture as a method of design exploits the creative potential within interdisciplinary practices such as philosophy, sculpture, cartoons, as a supplement to conventional design methodologies. This photo essay expands upon such methods originally highlighted within Bernard Tschumi’s Manhattan Transcripts (1976), in a parallel to unconscious principles of psychoanalytic “site-writing”, as proposed by Jane Rendell. Responding to the Hepworth Wakefield, United Kingdom, as the architectural object, photography and intuitive prose are explored as para-architectural tools of interrogation. Through an original series of photographs and developed prose, a diagnosis and analysis takes place – harnessing the potential of utilizing para-architectural methods to explore the unconscious of cultural architectural interventions. The future potential in subscribing to para-architectural inquiry affords for design ideologies and pedagogy within the discipline to advance the dimensions of prescriptive architecture; encouraging creative responses, whilst also considering the unseen cognitive burdens architecture often places onto communities, cultures, and cities.
Notes
1. Sarah Williams Goldhagen, cited in Amanda Kolson Hurley, “This Is Your Brain on Architecture,” CityLab (New York: CityLab, 2017).
2. Timothy Martin, “Psychoanalytic Diagnosis in Architecture and Urban Design,” in Architecture and the Unconscious, ed. J. Hendrix and L. Holm (London: Ashgate Press, 2016), 10.
3. Lucy R. Lippard, “Out of the Past: Lucy R. Lippard Talks about Eva Hesse with Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson,” Artforum International. February 2008. Recorded on June 5, 1973.
4. Martin, “Psychoanalytic Diagnosis in Architecture and Urban Design,” 10.
5. Slavoj Žižek, How to Read Lacan (London: Granta Publications, 2006), 2–3.
6. Slavoj Žižek, Interrogating the Real (New York: Bloomsbury, 2005), 113.
7. Jane Rendell, The Architecture of Psychoanalysis (London: IB Taurus and Co., 2017), 226.
8. Jane Rendell, Art and Architecture (London: IB Taurus and Co., 2006), 8.
9. Ibid., 12.
10. Rendell, The Architecture of Psychoanalysis, 228.
11. Joaquin Villanueva, “Rights,” in Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives, ed. M. Jayne and K. Ward, (London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017), 257.
12. Rendell, The Architecture of Psychoanalysis, 226.
13. Bernard Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunction (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996), 217.
14. Anthony Vidler, The Architectural Uncanny: Essays (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999), 106.
15. Martin, “Psychoanalytic Diagnosis in Architecture and Urban Design,” 10.
16. Vidler, The Architectural Uncanny, 106.
17. Ibid., 105.
18. Vinicius M. Netto, The Social Fabric of Cities (London: Routledge, 2017), 98.
19. Winfried Menninghaus, “On the ‘Vital Significance’ of Kitsch: Walter Benjamin’s Politics of ‘Bad Taste’, in Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity, ed. A. Benjamin and C. Rice (Melbourne: Re. Press, 2009), 63.
20. Enrique Walker and Bernard Tschumi, Tschumi on Architecture: Conversations with Enrique Walker (New York: Monacelli Press, 2006), 34.
21. Ibid., 50.
22. Slavoj Žižek, Living in the End Times (London: Verso Books, 2011), 273.
23. Netto, The Social Fabric of Cities, 98.
24. Rendell, The Architecture of Psychoanalysis, 119.
25. Louis D’Arcy-Reed, “Observing Parallaxical Identities of Place in Architecture–Adopting Architectural and Psychoanalytical Approaches to Urban Fabrics,” Journal of Architecture and Urbanism 43, no. 2 (2019), 166–173. Parallaxical Identities elicits the metaphysical dimension between the presentation of ego-ideal, ideal-ego, and superego of architectural interventions seen as regenerative for culture, the city and its communities, and its cognitive properties.
26. Rendell, The Architecture of Psychoanalysis, 226.
27. Vidler, The Architectural Uncanny, 107.
28. Susan MacLeod et al., Museum Revolutions (London: Routledge, 2007).
29. Examples include Salford's The Lowry, 2000; Gateshead’s Baltic, 2002; Middlesbrough's MIMA, 2007; and Margate’s The Turner Contemporary, 2011.
30. Claire Bishop, Radical Museology (London: Koenig Books, 2014), 9.
31. Brian Groom, “Arts Bring Hope as Building Spree Ends,” Financial Times, 24 May.
32. Hal Foster, “The ABCs of Contemporary Design,” October 100 (Spring, 2002): 191–199.
33. Žižek, Living in the End Times, 274.
34. Louis D’Arcy-Reed, An Unconscious Musing Upon Wakefield, see Figure 5, written January 2018, Wakefield, United Kingdom.
35. Rendell, The Architecture of Psychoanalysis, 119.
36. Cited in Ibid., 69.
37. D’Arcy-Reed, An Unconscious Musing Upon Wakefield, see Figure 5.
38. Gülsüm Baydar, “The Cultural Burden of Architecture,” Journal of Architectural Education 57, no. 4 (2004): 19–27.
39. Tricia Austin, “Scales of Narrativity,” in Museum Making, ed. S. MacLeod, L. Hourston Hanks, and J. Hale (London: Routledge, 2012): 107–118.
40. Žižek, Living in the End Times, 274.
41. Martin, “Psychoanalytic Diagnosis in Architecture and Urban Design,” 8.
42. Bruno Latour and Albena Yaneva, “Give Me a Gun And I Will Make All The Buildings Move – An Ant's View of Architecture,” in Explorations in Architecture: Teaching, Design, Research, (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2008), 80–89.
43. Žižek, Living in the End Times, 274.
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Louis D’Arcy-Reed
Dr Louis D’Arcy-Reed is a social, political, and cultural theorist specializing in the intersection of architectural and psychoanalytic inquiry. Utilizing facets of contemporary culture, media, and filmic representations, D’Arcy-Reed presents interrogations on social and political control, and the role of the built environment in the creation of cognitive and embodied urban fabrics. He is a regular contributor to the arts website Corridor8, and has written for Aesthetica Magazine, whilst also having a career as an artist and curator.