New Architectures

2023 - ongoing




Archival inkjet print on cotton paperNew Architectures (2023–ongoing) is a series of erasure poems sourced from Le Corbusier's canonical text, Towards a New Architecture. The project utilizes the digital erasure of words and entire phrases as a deconstructive methodology to challenge the entangled notions of progress, Modernity, and the "average man" frequently referenced by the architect.

The series critizes the Modernist view that reduces residential homes to clean, efficient commodities and functional machines, as well as the rigid, modular, and pre-fabricated tendencies of Le Corbusier's ideal housing proposals. By unpicking the original text's dogma, the work sifts through the theoretical rubble to construct new poetic, minimal, and objective text structures.