A friend of mine is working on his thesis, and he showed me the GSD thesis prize winner of 2011 Greg Tran titled as Mediating Mediums (http://vimeo.com/24860709). He proposed a possibility of a digital 3-D reality which ties to the real world material and accentuated the designer's role on meditating the two. It came up with the question of whether 2-D representation is still viable since we essentially design with 3-D rhino models nowadays. I think it is a good idea to think about what I am interested in as of now to start the collection of potential thesis, because I believe that thesis is the culmination of the architectural problems that I have been contemplative about and propose a potential paradigm to resolve them.
As of now,
1) how people start a design, how the design progress, and how to make the final jump to invent the cleverness in a design.
2) How to translate the architecture in other subjects into the real architectural language
I went to the MIT thesis review a few days ago and I found out that I am only interested in the proposals that are radical and question the fundamentals of architecture. It should be more than a building, it should be a proposal, a paradigm shifting design or even a new kind of ideology on both psychological and material level.
