ISU Architecture Lecture Series: Thomas Kelley

Iowa State University - Department of Architecture, College of Design, on behalf of the Architecture Advisory Council, presents a lecture by Thomas Kelley, 2013-14 Rome Prize winner.

"Eyecon"
Thomas Kelley, FAAR
Partner, Norman Kelley
22 October 2014
Kocimski Auditorium

Abstract:
Norman Kelley reexamines and rehearses visual deception through architectural drawing. From the 18th-century developed surface drawings of Thomas Lightoler to Daniel Libeskind’s collaged mis-projections in Micromegas, the capacity to baffle reality through drawing has led to innovative strategies in how we conceive of an architecture. Though often denigrated as a stylistic trope, or worse a gimmick, eyecon drawing suggests how two-dimensional projection can be used to alter three-dimensional space. And although the effects may not always be immediate, or even legible for that matter, it remains a form of representation which conditions the observer to pay close attention. By misappropriating a catalog of drawing conventions and illusory devices - to include anamorphosis, false shadow projection, and reversible figuration - Norman Kelley’s work is twofold. It presents both an alternative historical account of architecture’s relationship to vision and disciplines a set of techniques from to which to prey on the naïve observer. Like a child taunting a parent, Norman Kelley’s drawings task the observer to consider that what they see is something they do not always know.

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