1986 Master of Architecture
Mark Schendel

I propose to study how the reconfiguration of the landscape, the urban fabric, and the architecture of the city have occurred over time. By reconfiguration, I mean the necessary synthesis between the structure of the existing city fabric of “things” and the introduced qualities of a new object. The landscape, urban fabric, and the architecture are components of the city. They are interdependent, but they also exist as separate entities.

I propose to study the character of the landscape and the composition of the city first as description and then as a series of larger metaphors. I will then consider a specific building, or specific opposition between building, for each city, which established a synecdochical relationship between the building and the architecture of the city, promoting an interpretation of the city through its constituent parts.

1. Theatre District of Edo is perimeter registered with the kabuki theatre. The “old” kabuki theatre within the Theatre District is registered such that its Emperors Box is consistent with the single point registration in previous scalings. Kabuki wings become roads in the Theatre District. Note the “other” kabuki theatre in the Theatre District with its Emperors Box.
2. “Old” Kabuki Theatre of Smaller Theatre District is registered with the Emperors Box of the kabuki theatre such that the “other” kabuki theatre in the Smaller Theatre District is perimeter registered with the site generated in the second scaling. Site is site; site is kabuki theatre; site is theatre district.
3. A cut: A discretionary re-registration of a significant area of the previous scalings; with the perimeter of the site.