The Choreographic Architect

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In The Choreographic Architect, I explore how principles from dance and choreography can inform and inspire architectural design education. At the heart of the research lies a transdisciplinary investigation into space, body, and time. Three parameters shared by both the dancer and the architect. The work asks: What happens when movement becomes a tool for spatial thinking? What forms of knowledge are generated when the body is used as an instrument of design?

Drawing from choreographic practices, movement notation (such as Labanotation), and architectural form-finding processes, the thesis proposes a new kind of design language: one that is grounded in embodied perception, temporal awareness, and relational thinking. A key element of the research is the development of a “Gestaltnetz,” a conceptual framework inspired by Gestalt psychology, which interweaves various perceptual and spatial principles into a dynamic tool for design education.

Through workshops, teaching formats, and experimental exercises, The Choreographic Architect offers architecture and design students a space to engage with design through movement, writing, and drawing. The aim is not to make architects dance, but to open a new sensibility for how architecture is experienced, communicated, and imagined.