The Architecture, Culture & Tectonics Research Group warmly invites you to attend their Seminar on Wednesday 7th December 2023 at 13pm online via Teams.
Chiasmatic Encounters: Body, Architectural Drawing, and Digital Image
Guest speaker: Mohammad Moezzi
Abstract:
This presentation cast some lights upon the relationship between the human body, architectural
drawing, and digital images. It introduces the historical transition from drawing to digital image
as a phenomenon and its impact on broader dualistic concepts, such as real vs virtual, material
versus immaterial, precision vs ambiguity, original versus copy, and perception vs computation.
Drawing inspiration from Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "Phenomenology of Perception," the
presentation employs a hyperdialectical method, giving primacy to perceptual encounters. In this chiasmatic relationship, the boundaries between the body, drawing, and digital image are blurred.
The presentation also showcases the author's architectural drawings and digital images as
examples of these phenomenological explorations. These examples are integral components of the author's ongoing doctoral research at the University of Calgary in Canada, under the
supervision of Graham Livesey, Paul Emmons, and Marian Macken.
Biography:
Mohammad Moezzi is an architectural designer, educator, and researcher interested in
architectural drawing and existential phenomenology. With over a decade of experience teaching architecture and drawing theories, he is pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Calgary. Currently, his architectural drawings have been exhibited at the "Frascari Symposium VI" at the Washington Alexandria Architecture Centre in the US, and "Researching Beyond Words" at École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Lyon (ENSAL) in France. His drawings and presentations can be accessed through his social media pages:
https://www.instagram.com/m.h.moezzi/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-h-moezzi/