Expanded Views, With Rooms (Architectural Artifacts)

This design research project asserts that an architecture assembled around the hegemony of one view misses the point.  The project builds architecture from and through images by making a critique of the limits of linear perspective into a new thing.  It reviews three presets of perspective, architecture’s oldest imaging technique whose conventional set-up is still simulated in contemporary digital software.  A distrust in the uniform flatness of the picture plane, the fixed isolation of one point of view, and the figural distortion it produces reveals off-menu image options:  a triptych of “extra-perspectives” whose enhanced content is registered in relief, demands new modes of subjectivity, and generates atypical architectural form and space. 

The use of digital media to see and spatialize more information than usual abandons the trope, ‘a room with a view,’ exploring, instead, its inverse as an architectural agenda better suited to the present:  views, with rooms.  

Project Team: Megan Panzano with Julia Mercedes Roberts + Adam Strobel; Table fabrication by Bill Bancroft Design; pinkcomma Gallery, Boston MA

Awarded a 2021 ACSA Faculty Design Award Honorable Mention; shared on Archinect; selected for exhibition at The Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh PA; digital versions invited for exhibition in Drawing Attention, Roca Gallery, London