Script, culture, architecture : a dialogue

This thesis is a commentary on memory and cultural interpretation of

architectural space, through language, narrative and representation. A

dialogue is presented between two women, with culturally different

backgrounds and experiences, who share memories of their past. This

dialogue as an abstraction, prevents the work from forcing a set opinion or

message, presenting facts that allow viewers/readers to come to their own

conclusions - an introspective and personal searching in relation to the work.

"Creating a narrative of the past is not about fixing and preserving

events through memory but about allowing memory to give

personal interpretations of, and hence distort, the events of the

past...this memory creates fictions and is unstable, allowing a

plurality of possible existences."

The same can be said of architectural experience whereby architecture may

have a specific intent, though no one person may experience and interact

with it in the exact same way, becoming a personal narrative for the visitor.

The architectural experience is a process that allows for the exploration of

the way we construct, receive and communicate ideas - ideas concerning

space identity, representation and the relationship between words and

images created through narratives.