Abstract

From “The Practice and Art of the Everyday”

Nicole Thommen Perri Thesis, Clemson University

Let us begin by cleaning house. To unearth the poetics of daily life we must separate, sharpen, and reconcile the practice and art of the everyday. The Necessaries are the innermost layer of the everyday. The discovery of the architecture's “Necessaries” begins with looking at the practice of living, the patterns of humankind. Architectural archetypes are the most fundamental models of our pauses and rhythms. And only when they are securely in place, can the art of living be liberated. This art first begins with the Re-presentation of the Archetype, where the appropriation of the model engenders poetry linked to our everyday. My paradigm for Re-presentation is functional pottery, an art in which Emptiness and fingermarks celebrate utility.

 It is easy to find beauty in the someday or the sublime, but I seek to unearth the poetics of our daily life. I want to reconcile the practical and the art of architecture by exploiting the subtle poetry of the way in which we dwell. I practice a living art, a craft which animates life by extracting that which is potent from the everyday.