Velvet Garage Narratives of an Education in Architecture

If you had to share the work you’ve produced in architecture school with your family, what would you say about it? Could you speak about it with the same conviction you do in front of your jury at a final review? Would the things you value in architecture translate to someone who doesn’t study or practice it? Velvet Garage : Narratives of an Education in Architecture is an exploration into many things, most obviously garages and architecture education, but perhaps, most importantly, the unexpected repercussions of studying architecture : spatially, technically, but also emotionally. This thesis admittedly looks backward as it reflects on old work and past experiences, some dating up to 10 years, but it does so by re-representing them in a new way that attempts to talk about architecture differently, in a more accessible manner. The thesis, then, is two-fold: As a response to the current remote conditions we find ourselves in due to COVID-19, this thesis transforms the domestic garage of my childhood home in El Paso, TX into a center of architectural production, where the “Velvet Garage” then allows for the reframing of architecture pedagogy as visual narratives in the form of a short film that incorporates both found and designed objects. This thesis believes that we unconsciously embed ourselves in our work, but that our work is also embedded in us. When we share our work, we also share a part of ourselves, and when we can’t, we fail to communicate a large part of what makes us who we are. Velvet Garage : Narratives of an Education in Architecture attempts to share stories that haven’t ever been shared before with the very new audience of my own family.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2021

Author dc:creator

• González-Cervantes, Marianna

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• O’Brien Jr., William

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
• Copyright retained by author(s)

Licence dc:rights.uri

• https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139369

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/139369