architektonima, by Maya Christodoulaki, is
a creative architectural practice forging a distinctive approach to spatial
creation: it is both embedded in the materiality and the making of buildings,
as well as, active in research and theory. The space-making methodology is
rooted in a profound engagement with mathematical thinking and natural
philosophy, and is practiced and applied using architecture, signals and
weaving.
Transtextual Invention 2022-2026
The dissertation presents a study of the Early Renaissance sculptor and architect Antonio di Piero Averlino (1400 – c. 1469), known as ‘Filarete’, by examining matters of rhetoric, probability, law and fallibility. The primary goal is a methodological enquiry of architectural writing in the light of advances in non-linear processing. These subjects provide the necessary relational structures to examine the stochastic conception behind the architect’s single literary work, the Libro Architettonico, and connect to matters of probabilistic rhetoricity in data-driven architectural production. The thesis proposes a reevaluation of the theoretical frame of his opus that focuses on formal concerns, and the substantiation of intellectual and mathematical trajectories, like non-linear argumentation, that are fitting to the dialogical narrative and metaphorical drawings of the Libro. The thesis connects the unfavored treatment of Filarete to an emphasis on stylistic concerns that prioritize architectural attribution pertaining to key references like Leon Battista Alberti and instead suggests a wider observational canon of dialogical literature. Recent studies on premodern rhetorics will play a vital role in informing Filarete’s exposure to humanist, neoplatonic and scholastic literature. The principal objective of this project is to examine how Filarete’s persona centered around the idea of virtue relates to transtextual invention and the humanist use of ‘the probable’, as well as how quasi-propositions influence his unique architectonic conception in a manner sufficient to challenge any notion of inferiority as-a-thinker, as well as an-author.
Category Research, Filarete, ATTP, TU Vienna,Architecture Theory