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thesis studio
sfo international terminal
map of alphabetical language
2009
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Thesis Project Abstract
While the image of the airport is technological, with its high-tech trusses and airplane inspired aesthetic, the airport is in fact fundamentally dependent on alphabetical language, defined more by written instructions than dramatic roofs.
The alphabetical space of the terminal converts the experience of architecture from a phenomenal one to a psychological one, displacing the physical object in favor of a field of legibility. The subject is constituted as a reader, rather than a body, and is dependent on the legibility of language in the field.
It is not the content of language but the fact of language that is critical, specifically this fact of legibility. Legibility directs the reading subject through the undifferentiated but heterogeneous field of language; thus, space defined by an accumulation of alphabetical language can be understood as a haze of language with emergent legibility.
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The other samples of work shown here investigate how aggregate systems operate architecturally.
Contact
a.o.leach@gmail.com
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