Lost and Found in Translation Paradoxically Between the Near and Far, the Virtual and Actual, the Real and Representational + Between Drawings and Buildings

The differences between the proximate and the remote, suggesta change in distance between something near and far. But if the“remote” is both a tangible and imaginary space, then it definesnot only a distant landscape but also a more distant perspectivetowards what is immediately within our reach. This paradoxicalstate becomes productive by illuminating the tensions between theconcerns of the near and far which can be difficult to imagine whileonly operating within proximate spheres. Few of our architecturalconventions allow for the type of productive tensions that are illuminatedwhile considering the proximate from remote perspectives.Perhaps these differences are not something to be ignored, ratherto be highlighted and mined productively for their generative potentialswithin architecture. It seems the differences between abstractnotions of the proximate and the remote could be reframed withinarchitecture as the differences between the real and the representational.

Volume Editors
Urs Peter Flueckiger & Victoria McReynolds

ISBN
978-1-944214-16-6