Barbora Vokac

Currently there is a demand, either by society or by a trite urban condition, for singular, independently significant images. Regardless of the origin, the result is a self referential architecture, which is slowly transforming the landscape into a collection of objects occupying an architectural zone.
The notion of architecture which was truly connected with its surroundings can be exemplified by Ancient Greek Sacred Architecture. The system of mythical beliefs that generated narratives of the environment led to the siting of sacred places. These Sacred Places were then physically defined by the architecture. This architecture was not added; rather it made the sacred intangibles concrete.

"Shift" Richard Serra : King City, Ontario

The proposed thesis is a winery using wine making- a process revealing a pure essence from a crude origin- as a foundation for exploring the relationship between place and architecture. Ideas of transformation, transmutation and spatial experience will be explored through research on modern sculpture by artists such as Robert Morris, Donald Judd, Robert Smithson and Richard Serra.
The analytic and rational structure used to define space by these artists provokes comparisons with architecture. The proposed design approach involves exploring the work -written and made - by these artists to develop a design methodology which works within the "space of self". This methodology will use architecture as a mediator between the vast and the intimate, by revealing a sense of place, through the indexing of space.