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

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