Open Studio Fall 2024
December 27th, 2024
Venue: Lobby, Institute of Architecture, NYCU (Kuan-Fu Campus, Hsinchu City)

11:30-12:30 Lecture: "Installation as Architectural Encounter"
Dr. Matthew Ozga-Lawn, Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University, UK

12:30-13:30 Introduction to Institute of Architecture

14:00-17:00 Open Studio: Studio Works

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Lecture: "Installation as Architectural Encounter"
When we look at architectural images, we project ourselves into their representational spaces, creating an imaginative connection for us to explore and inhabit these constructed worlds. Robin Evans describes this performative, generative act of imaginative engagement as the 'frontal subject', in which spaces, particularly in abstract and discontinuous modes of drawing, are 'completed' via the projective imagination. Certain drawing types have established codes that anticipate this completion, such as the plan's relationship to the section - a suspension of space between drawings that is also called
"architecture of desire.' On another front, installation is often considered in architecture as a minor mode of construction, whereas it is appreciated for its transformative effect in artistic practice over the 20th and early 21st centuries where drawing conventions have been reassessed and reinvented through installation art. In this talk, Matt will discuss installation as the framework for an encounter with disparate and varied architectural images, allowing for the construction of spaces of desire, and a reconsideration of the frontal subject.
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Matthew is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Newcastle University. He is Degree Programme Director of MSc Advanced Architectural Design, and co-lead of Representation and Communication in the School. Matthew was previously Stage Coordinator of Stage 6 (MArch final year) Architectural Design, and has taught extensively in the MArch and BA programmes.

Matthew completed his Ph.D. by Creative Practice at Newcastle University in 2020, entitled The Duke In His Domain: the apparatus of the architectural drawing. The Ph.D., developed through installation, explores the perspectival underpinnings of architectural processes, translating a small Renaissance theatre in the citta ideale of Sabbioneta, Italy into the office space Matthew occupies. The theatre, constructed around a perspectival stage, reconfigures the office and the representational fragments it contains into an inhabited, working model of the visual and embodied relationships between architectural representations.

Along with James A. Craig, Matthew runs the experimental design platform Stasus, who have been published in the influential Pamphlet Architecture series, arq (Architecture Research Quarterly), the Paper for Emerging Architectural Research (PEAR) and AD magazine.

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