Oblique strategies elena palacios carral

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OBLIQUE STRATEGIES Under One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas of Interiority1 by Elena Palacios Carral

A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (History and Critical Thinking) in the Architectural Association School of Architecture.

1 The title of this thesis, ‘Oblique Strategies: Under One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas of Interiority’, is directly lifted from Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s ‘Oblique Strategies: Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas’, a set of cards that they wrote to aid the studio practice. Each of them provided aphorisms to help artists break creative block in the studio and encourage lateral thinking. These cards would say things like ‘Discipline self-indulgence’, ‘Turn it upside down’, ‘Instead of changing the thing, turn the world around you’ or ‘It is simply a matter of work’ Each of them were not necessarily looking for something they hadn’t tried before but wanted to use ‘old habits’ to produce ‘new ones’. ‘The question becomes knowing how to tear the new from the always- the-same’ This thesis also uses this idea, using the image itself as a sort of aphorism or ‘truth’ about interiority that, when seen in relation to the text or to each other, might provoke or induce lateral thinking on dilemmas concerning what we might understand as an interior in Architecture.


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