Matteo Mastrandrea
MA work
MA work
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The Clearings of Meinong's Jungle, Matteo Mastrandrea (Isabel Ogden) 2016
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Fill It In—Cliffe Graviton Detector (Aerial), Matteo Mastrandrea 2016
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Fill It In—Cliffe Graviton Detector (Interior; Canteen), Matteo Mastrandrea 2016
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Fill It In—Cliffe Graviton Detector (Exterior; Elevator), Matteo Mastrandrea 2016
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Freudian Slip—Microscopic Miasma Photographs (Airborne), Matteo Mastrandrea (Alice Dunseath) 2016
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Metaphor—Hyde Park Void (Interior), Matteo Mastrandrea 2016
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Contradiction—South Coast Unicorn Landscape (Exterior; I), Matteo Mastrandrea 2015
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Contradiction—South Coast Unicorn Landscape (Exterior; II), Matteo Mastrandrea 2016
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The Pun—10 Hague Street Doppelgänger (Detail) , Matteo Mastrandrea 2016
Meinong's Jungle; Or—What of Architecture In a World With Only One Tongue?
“…[A] tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”
—William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17-28)
Every 14 days a language becomes extinct.
It is estimated that by 2150 only six languages will remain.
Eventually, these six will collapse into one.
But what are the ramifications of our species’ contemporary tropism towards a universal language; how will a concomitant mass linguicide begin to affect society, subjectivity, and everything in between; and what can be done to mitigate the potentially pernicious consequences of such an unprecedented scenario?
By transmuting William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity into a set of architectural principles, this project (commissioned by fictional organisation ACRONYM) attempts to do one thing and one thing only – retain reference to things that don’t exist in a world without language.
How? By generating a new piece of public infrastructure for post-literate world – a series of nodes, interventions, or “clearings”, sited on the UTM grid – known as Meinong’s Jungle.
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School of Architecture
Programme
MA Architecture, 2016
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