Architectural Language

After exploring the work of post modernist play writer and poet, Samuel Beckett and comparing and contrasting them with the caretaker and John Hejduk, I have began to convert this language into architecture. Beckett's work is often minimalist, while being set in stark, bleak, barren and desolate locations. The caretaker is a similar character to those of Beckett's as they are represented in individual isolation even if they are surrounded by other characters. Beckett questions the meaning of life and displays the absurdity of the human existence. While his work is written in an abstract form it lacks any ornamentation. Hejduk and Beckett are both similar in the sense their work is both structured and organised. Hejduk's exploration of grids, frames and cubism is similar to Beckett's play, 'Act With no Words'. Both Beckett and Hejduk have similarly influenced my design exploration...