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mostafa Ghaffari

mostafa Ghaffari

Los Angeles, CA, US

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SCIARC Grad Thesis Advisor: Eric Owen Moss

Early Modernism’s apparent lack of interest in history and ambitions of creating new utopian architecture that addressed technological improvements of the time, were constituted in set of very distinct rules. These rules eventually created homogenous building forms and conformity. Perhaps, Lack of self-expression was the reason why post-modernist architects felt aggravated enough to break the dogma and refuse to follow many of the existed rules.
Considering the question of authorship, memory and fidelity, this thesis is going to explore how one perceives an object with all its specificities without recognizing what the original resembled. Neglecting the operational meanings of the objects, Analogue processes Question the qualitative association between the original status and the concluding status of the objects.  These procedures were accommodated to highlight relationships between the formal condition before and after the transformation. This exploration is not interested in the gradient of transformation rather it’s invested in the middle condition where the objects are neither as articulated as the start nor as banal as the end, and they are formed by discrete transitions within each collective. When it comes to the site, the manifestation of the middle condition tends to create a mystery that leaves strategic visual traces for further exploration by the inhabitant of the space. These visual traces and their relationships are used as means of creating curiosity and mobilization of the inhabitants in the site.

 
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Status: School Project
Location: Los Angeles, CA, US
My Role: concept design

 
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