A taste of architecture

Abstract

This research explores the connection between gastronomy and architecture. The analogy is adopted in order to identify the potential for each to inform, or be informed by the other, thus creating new ways of constructing and construing architecture. The report is divided into two sections. The first of these identifies architecture's dominant visual component and offers both architectural and culinary strategies to reintroduce a somatic ingredient. The second section considers why this ingredient has been excluded and again offers strategies for inclusion. Both sections identify a means of understanding the architectural environment which is incompatible to traditional methods that rely on subject/object referents. As the title suggests this investigation is inconclusive, though it aspires to act as a starting point for further investigation into architecture through concepts of displacement and reception.