The Bartlett Research Conversations
06 November 2018, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
![Sketch of a Rakuchu Rakugai zu painting](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/sites/bartlett_architecture/files/styles/large_image/public/sayan.jpg?itok=XAynOCVj)
MPhil/PhD student Sayan Skandarajah discusses his research in an open seminar
Event Information
Open to
- UCL staff | UCL students
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Jakub Owczarek – Teaching and Learning020 3108 9336
Location
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6.0222 Gordon StreetLondonWC1H 0QBUnited Kingdom
Research summary
Scenes of Another Kyoto
Supervisors: Dr Penelope Haralambidou and Professor Ben Campkin
Sayan discusses spatial representation in Japanese works of art, looking in detail at 'Scenes in and Around Kyoto', Rakuchu Rakugai Zu's folding screens, which exhibit a type of architectural drawing known as parallel projection.
By inhabiting the compositional framework of the original artists, Sayan develops his own reflective design process, using drawing as a means of negotiating between analysis of the paintings and the speculation on forms of urban imagination.
About The Bartlett Research Conversations
The Bartlett School of Architecture’s Research Conversations seminars comprise work-in-progress and upgrade presentations by students undertaking the MPhil/PhD Architectural Design and MPhil/PhD Architectural and Urban History and Theory. All current UCL staff and students are welcome to attend.
Held regularly throughout the academic year, the seminars are attended by the programme directors, Professor Jonathan Hill and Professor Ben Campkin, PhD Coordinators, Dr. Nina Vollenbröker and Dr Sophie Read, and other PhD supervisors.
Image credit: Parallel Projection, by Sayan Skandarajah