Stranger at the Studio Table

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Architecture and Collage

In Kolaj #17, Clive Knights offers a first-person account of the relationship between architecture and collage. He writes, Throughout a life in architecture, I have always sensed and responded to the lure of collage, answering the call of a profound freedom that it offers in contrast to architecture, while figuring through my fascination in order to give it both theoretical weight and pertinence to the practice of making buildings.

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I see collage making as Octavio Paz sees the writing of a poem; taking phenomena already laden with a meaning spawned by their existing contribution to everyday life, and re-awakening them through new configurations and alliances.

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Across my years of dual practice, unanticipated commonalities have emerged that make collage perhaps the most efficacious, generative graphic means for imagining new architectures.

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Based in Portland, Oregon, Clive Knights is a collage artist and printmaker, as well as a Professor of Architecture and the Director of the School of Architecture at Portland State University. Learn more about him at www.cliveknights.com.

Images by Clive Knights
Top: Weak Iconoclasm 2
Centre: Lunar Rhythm
Bottom: Sanctuary