Transgressive Architecture: Transference of Art Processes into Architecture

Abstract

This thesis investigates architects and artists current fascination in the transgression of traditional disciplinary boundaries. Through transdisciplinary practices, the research attempts to transfer art processes into architecture as a way of exploring new approaches to designing. The potentials for architecture are explored in terms of spatial qualities, rather than in two-dimensional work. The examination of the current condition and the critique of John Hejduk's Texas houses and Diamond series determine how art processes can be most effectively be transferred. The task at hand is to assess at which stages transdisciplinary practices can most effectively be applied to conceptual architectural design and to what extent.