Punctuation Typology
A delicate world of punctuation surrounds the built environment, like a world of symbols living in hidden layer. They are missed by the naked eye, but through the lens I invite you to wear, you will find that they exist, and that the layer is, in fact, teeming with life.
Punctuation marks are the control points of written language. Within grammatical syntax, punctuation is a means of facilitating what we want to say. Language is subjective but very little changes in punctuation. At their most basic sense, they represent interruptions and continuities between things, but their mere placement radically modifies the text that surround them. Not only is the constancy of their meaning in linguistic expression directly translatable to other forms of expression but they also reveal new ways of understanding them. I have pondered punctuation as a medium for spatial expression, as a means of impacting context, composing content, reframing meaning. This is not in a purely didactic manner, but in a profound manner of seeing, where it reaches clarity with phraseology, viewpoint, analysis, and making.
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A delicate world of punctuation surrounds the built environment, like a world of symbols living in hidden layer. They are missed by the naked eye, but through the lens I invite you to wear, you will find that they exist, and that the layer is, in fact, teeming with life.
Punctuation marks are the control points of written language. Within grammatical syntax, punctuation is a means of facilitating what we want to say. Language is subjective but very little changes in punctuation. At their most basic sense, they represent interruptions and continuities between things, but their mere placement radically modifies the text that surround them. Not only is the constancy of their meaning in linguistic expression directly translatable to other forms of expression but they also reveal new ways of understanding them. I have pondered punctuation as a medium for spatial expression, as a means of impacting context, composing content, reframing meaning. This is not in a purely didactic manner, but in a profound manner of seeing, where it reaches clarity with phraseology, viewpoint, analysis, and making.
The discipline of architecture constantly introduces us to new modes of representation. We struggle to express our ideas – how our processes materialize a conceptual solution to a spatial problem, or how to turn conceptual problems into spatial solutions. I am not proposing a new language; I am proposing a new translation.
Punctuology, I propose, is the capacity of the typographic symbols we call punctuation to classify, provide relationships, and engender new architectural typologies. I have come to define/conceive my body of work through this world: the spatiality of punctuation.