Of
the
thesis
entitled:Storytelling
through
Light
Abstract:
Realities of the world are often difficult to face. We dream of a world devoid of social ills. The notion of ‘utopia’ we imagine an environment as such – sparkling and full of light. Delusion of a perfect world. Such perfection fails to address the darker, more unpredictable reality – one of imperfections, transitions and moments of enlightenment, an existence constantly becoming. Architecture can frame such side of existence.
Architectural space can find its origin in the creation of experience, focusing on the process of making to engage the senses and create experience. In this thesis, the experience is developed in the intertwined refrains of art, architecture and sculpture.
This work embodies an exploratory design method. It frames through architecture, an affect drawn from the interplay of light, matter and space. The percept is drawn from experiments, the works of Louis Kahn, Tadao Ando, the paintings of Caravaggio and the sculptures of Henry Moore, telling the story of life, the story of darkness, of shadows, flesh and hope.
The examining committee is as follows:
Supervisor:
Donald McKay, University of Waterloo
Committee Members:
Dereck Revington, University of Waterloo
Anne Bordeleau , University of Waterloo
External Reader:
David Lieberman
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Tuesday
May
21,
2019,
at
9:30am
in
ARC
2026.
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.