Sub-thesis : Part 1 Building the Connections : Part 2: The Experience of Body Objects

Abstract

The sub-thesis is divided into two sections. Part 1: Building the Connections opens the dialogue by identifying relevant architectural theory, establishing key zones of interpenetration between architecture and jewellery and exploring the nature of these connections. This section comprises three parts: space, scale and ornament. Part 2: The Experience of Body Obiects examines the nature of the experiential connections by analysing the experiences of wearable objects in relation to spatial, sensory and temporal criteria. The broad context for the sub-thesis is the practice and theoretical discourses of architecture and jewellery. Architectural thought and analysis is used to examine wearable objects. The confrontation between space and the activity of wearing an object on the body is discussed within the realms of architectural theory and built works that address the concepts of space, scale, ornament, time and the senses. In the sub-thesis the term 'architecture' refers to the thought processes and actions that contribute to the design and construction of edifices for human use. Where the term 'building' is employed, this describes the physical embodiment of these actions: the definitive form, the solid and the void, the inside and the outside and the surface planes and textures that collectively describe the edifice. Jewellery material selected for study includes wearable and other small objects constructed by Western practitioners during the latter part of the twentieth century and early twentyfirst century. Show more