“The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.”
. . . William Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1.) The His-And-Her House 2.) The Banqueting House 3.) The Kennedy Residence
While all architecture should be thought of poetically, design competitions offer a means to discover the poetic limits of an architect’s imagination. Poetic architecture can reflect myth, engage history, and embody ritual. The three projects presented here received citations or design awards in national design competitions which addressed one or many aspects of poetic architecture.
Link to our Competitions and Design Awards Gallery to see comprehensive drawings, models, and synopses of the three projects illustrated above.
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