Photography and the un-fixed : an un-arrested meaning

This thesis articulates a methodology of understanding the transient process of shuttling

between sign and referent, in order to understand both visual and experiential exchanges that

occur within layers of duration. Located between intervals, de-programming of daily

permutations and exposure to light/shadow are reguired to embrace multi-durational space.

An architecture that contains a shifting representation will evolve into a building that

continually becomes part of our consciousness. Even if indirectly, 'the message received, the

meaning revealed, extend out and attach themselves to the space in which they emerge: 'that'

clings to 'there,'1 in both meaning and image for the user. While it has previously been the

goal to, 'freeze program and space into a relation of cause and effect...photography has

shown us, instead that the influences between forms and functions are reciprocal.'2

Might architecture be as fixed as shadows?