Saaraa Premji Mitha

Translations (all my collaborators are dead)

We are collectors, hoarding reminders of what we admire because our discipline is rooted and produced through precedent. Looting from decades of recorded works, we take, mix, recompose, layer, shuffle, and re-contextualize what has been.

We sample. Sourcing through time. Translating, then re-translating from something far removed in language, history, culture, and context. Each translation seeking not a literal re-representation of thought, but instead re-presenting to convey clear expression and render meaning as completely as possible.

This thesis recaptures the lost influence of postwar Japanese residential architecture for our ever-fluid, networked, and omniscient world. Advisors: Fala Atelier Winter 2021