Images by Toronto-based artist Tom Ngo
Says Denzeen:
Architectural Absurdities, Ngo’s imagined structures include a monument for people with eight arms, a park for carpets and a house designed for a collector of meat grinders. These drawings are created through fracturing rules of concept/design and then obeying them ad absurdum,†says Ngo. “The result is a nutty and whimsical brand of social commentary
Says Ngo:
“Common sense and conventional practice prohibits the evolution of architecture. Through reproducing past models for efficiency and economy, routine thinking preserves the flaws of the standard model. Using different frameworks of thought, architects can create new solutions, which rectify the faults of the norm, and distance themselves from making habitual design decisions. Built on the foundations of Victorian Nonsense, Alfred Jarry’s ‘Pataphysics, and Absurdist Theatre, Absurdity expands the limits of human reason by presenting a paradoxical solution. By allowing solutions which would normally have been ruled out due to irrationality, absurdity provides non-linear alternatives which interrogate contemporary logic. Unbound by strict conformity to logic, the liberated architect breathes new life into architecture.”
(Via C-Monster and Oh Colour Me In)
