Directed by John Shannon Hendrix
What can psychoanalysis offer to the imagination and creativity of architects, in understanding their role in society and solving problems? What does architecture tell us about the human psyche? The imagination is necessary for architecture as a mode of knowledge. The imagination bridges the gap between perception and understanding. Architecture is a mode of thought, different from other ways of thinking. How does the imagination work, in the relation between the Imaginary, Symbolic and Real, in the intersection of perception and language? What role does the unconscious play in the formation of images in dreams and the imagination?
Zoom Session Links
• session 1 The first symposium on the role of the unconscious in the architectural imagination, sponsored by the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies in Architecture, With Don Kunze, Wouter Van Acker, Francesco Proto, Tim Martin, and John Shannon Hendrix. Don Kunze: How to Have/Use an Imagination Wouter Van Acker: Tuche and Trompe-l-oeil in the Work of Addvt John Hendrix: Desire and Perception in Language architecture, psychoanalysis, the unconscious, the Other, scotomata, vacillation, meconnaissance, dream work, condensation, displacement, jouissance, the sublime, the unheimlich, metaphor, metonymy, Lorens Holm, Architecture and the Unconscious, Peter Eisenman, Deconstruction, Manfredo Tafuri, Marxism, imagination, Jacques Lacan, mirror stage, orthopedic totality, dehiscence, Imaginary, Symbolic, manifold, apperception, psyche, anamorphosis.
• session 2 The second symposium on the role of the unconscious in the architectural imagination, sponsored by the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies in Architecture. with Andrew Payne (“Beauty’s Edge“), Lorens Holm: Discourses and their imaginary towers, Don Kunze (“Passivity of the Architectural Imagination: Anamorphosis“), Wouter Van Acker and Victoire Chancel (Cuts, Mirrors and Doubles, Absence in the Visual Field of Advvt), Kati Blom, Francesco Proto, Tim Martin, and John Shannon Hendrix.
Position Papers / presentations
• John Hendrix: “The Role of the Unconscious in the Architectural Imagination”, “Desire in Perception and Language”
• Wouter Van Acker: “Tuché and Trompe-l-oeil in the Work of Addvt”
• Lorens Holm: “Discourses and Their Imaginary Towers”
• Don Kunze: “The (Architectural) Case for Imagination’s Radical Passivity”, “ZAIRJA: How to Have/Use an Imagination”, “Idempotency of the Architectural Imagination”