Polina Alexeeva Sci-Arc Thesis Summer 2016 Advisor: Hernan Diaz Alonso Awards: Merit Graduate Thesis Award DESCRIPTION: Contemporary architecture has always used visionary architecture within science-fiction movies as an excuse to speculate about the present and try to move the discipline forward. A lot of science-fiction movies have inspired generations of scientists to research and develop new technologies. Some of them predicted the design building future, while others simply serve as a warning. My thesis aims to challenge the traditional discipline as a vehicle to anticipate where architecture will be in the future and, at the same time, comment on the present. Analyzing architectural representation in feature films and visionary architecture, learning general principles and applying them to create my own visual world. By using three main concepts that have to do with traditional architecture, it operates in the realm of Visionary tradition, Material effect phenomenology and Parallel reality. It is not about how it can be made or what material it can be made of, rather it is about the Effect and Atmosphere that it is producing.

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