Drawing my office : a study on architectural representation of time.

This thesis is an attempt to recover the temporality of architecture. Although many \ncontemporary architects argue their ways of dealing with time in their architecture, their idea \nof time is confined within narrow-mined assumptions of science, and their methods are \nlocked in the intrinsic limitation of architectural representation. This thesis criticises the idea \nof time with only successive instants for its incompetence of accommodating our exuberant \nexperience of architecture, and finds the origin of the problem at the conventional \narchitectural representation which cannot show what we are together with, but just what we \ncan confront. \nAs a "research by design", this thesis is led by a desigri experiment, which is simply to \nrepresent my office. The experiment tries to catch the time of my office with various \nstrategies, and the theory follows it while weaving a story by analysing and evaluating it. \nTheoretical arguments, which have been initiated mainly from Deleuze, grope for their way in \nthe dialogue with drawings. The strategy of drawing experiment is to approve material and \nconceptual substantiality of drawing so that it can 'work' in time. Concerning the material \nsubstantiality, physical size, shape, texture and frame of paper, and various qualities of lines \nand touches are examined. For the conceptual substantiality, metamorphosis of meaning, \nisolated figures, vibrating picture ground, and forces in drawing are explored. Ironically, the \ndrawing can manifest my office-ness when it is truly itself. Although the experiment may not \nbe executed in a systematic order, I hope that its audience will generate with the drawings \nhis/her own meanings and sensations, which may 'evolve' into his/her architecture.