Holden Sho Miles




Architecture

Chimborazo Cultural Center
Cascading Library
Q-Bert Stairs 
The Florida House
A Necessary Reminder
The St. Augustine House
Neotopia
Folio & Folly
Memory of Space
Building Project
Made in Livonia


Explorations

Kabuto
Deepfakes
Affordance
Ruins, Ruination, & Reuse
Formal Analysis
The Corner at Wooster
Pliant Bodies
Fractured Impressions
Groundwater Earth
Enfilade House
A Day in the Life of a Utopia
About
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 Holden Miles





Fractured Impressions


Spatial Gestalt

    Using Tadao Ando’s distinction between Japanese and Western architecture as a reference, this film explores gestalt in relation to space. In essence, he defines two differing approaches to spatial conception- one in which the whole is derived from its parts (Japanese) and one in which the parts are derived from a preconceived whole (Western). Through montage, a scaleless object is perceived only through details and refuses a lucid understanding of the entire object. Juxtaposing shots are coupled with identical ones in an effort to distort and recontextualize the initial image. In this way, collisions between cellular shots divide to generate new concepts and deny the fixed object a static reading.