Rear Window

To draw is to select, to select is to interpret, and to interpret is to propose. — Ignasí Solá Morales

Rear Window advance architecture studies unit  runs in parallel with Rear Window design studio to explore design research approaches and reinforce the intellectual and design contexts for the studio explorations. The unit will also focus on visual methods that critically examine, document and expose the project and projection of architecture as a tool of thinking.

The word “manifesto” comes from the Latin manifestus which means: ‘detected in the act’, ‘evident’, make visible’. Rear Window seeks to uncover the side of architectural projects that is always there but rarely seen. Students will generate a critical document making visible the exploration and research followed and developed to create an alternative reality within the city. Through the generation of a manifesto, students will test how to articulate, document, and communicate processes, findings, and implications of the Rear Window design project.

A series of tasks linked to the studio projects have been developed to cover a range of skills and knowledge. Those tasks together with some of the studio production will compose the contents of the Rear Window Manifesto:

  • Manifesto 1: City
  • Manifesto 2: Body
  • Manifesto 3: Action
  • Manifesto 4: Object

The architectural manifesto will pay especial attention to the relationship of image, line drawing, and text; structure and sequence narrative; and form and content.