Zachary Tate Porter

Ideas Seminar: Zachary Tate Porter

 

The architectural design is a complicated process, and there are many ways in the process for designers and design students to develop their projects. Since we are concentrated on the digital technologies and parametric architecture, Zac Poter’s approach of the way to develop ideas of architectural design process is quite different and intriguing to me. Zachary Tate Porter showed us about his works and exhibition “Groundwork: Tracings, Excavations and Burials”. His works seem like artistic rendering characterized by their use of topographic surveys, textual fragments and found artifacts, his drawings and models construct complex narratives that connect the viewer to imaginative landscapes. I felt he is more like artist rather than architect. Since the field of architecture would be designing and constructing a building or a structure. I think, however, art and architecture actually are very similar because the truth is that architecture requires as much of aesthetics and designing sense as any piece of art.

He talked about his research that seems related to the concept of narrative architecture. I personally believe that in order to create the best projects we can, there must be an element of storytelling worked into and throughout the design process. In design process, narrative can be used to facilitate the exploration of ideas pertaining to architecture but also can also be condensed to generating more specific ideas.