Gothic Suprematist Machine

A design-research studio treating architectural history as active computational material rather than a stylistic reference.

Students studied Gothic plans, vaults, towers, spires, sectional bands, and surface systems through symmetry, proportion, hierarchy, repetition, subdivision, and articulation. Suprematism supplied a language of abstraction that moved the work away from literal precedent and toward geometric extraction.

The studio progressed from collective precedent research to abstraction and generative production. Drawings, diagrams, taxonomies, mesh models, and physical artifacts made each object evidence of an underlying architectural rule.

Three phases organized the semester: Gothic Suprematism, Suprematist Form Wrapping, and Generative Suprematism. Final scripts produced families of formal variations derived from four research tracks: triforia, towers and spires, cathedral plans, and vaults.

The work connected historical analysis with computational authorship. Students learned to transform morphological observations into design rules and speculative architectural systems without reducing history to stylistic imitation.