The Bartlett Research Conversations

Research summary

Scenes of Another Kyoto

Supervisors: Dr Penelope Haralambidou and Professor Ben Campkin

Sayan discusses spatial representation in Japanese works of art, looking in detail at 'Scenes in and Around Kyoto', Rakuchu Rakugai Zu's folding screens, which exhibit a type of architectural drawing known as parallel projection. 

By inhabiting the compositional framework of the original artists, Sayan develops his own reflective design process, using drawing as a means of negotiating between analysis of the paintings and the speculation on forms of urban imagination.

About The Bartlett Research Conversations

The Bartlett School of Architecture’s Research Conversations seminars comprise work-in-progress and upgrade presentations by students undertaking the MPhil/PhD Architectural Design and MPhil/PhD Architectural and Urban History and Theory. All current UCL staff and students are welcome to attend.

Held regularly throughout the academic year, the seminars are attended by the programme directors, Professor Jonathan Hill and Professor Ben Campkin, PhD Coordinators, Dr. Nina Vollenbröker and Dr Sophie Read, and other PhD supervisors.

Image credit: Parallel Projection, by Sayan Skandarajah