Opening Reception for F(r)iction: 2023 Princeton SoA Post-Professional M.Arch Thesis Exhibition at a83

In the face of crisis, architecture has traditionally sought radical solutions. However, as a state of perpetual crisis becomes the status-quo, architecture must reevaluate its myopic narrative. The collective work of F(r)iction acts as transgressor rather than heroine. In responding to a myriad of environmental, sociological, and material issues, these projects strive to produce architectural fictions that argue for a nuanced form of spatialized agency. Their optimistic mode of working notwithstanding, these works also produce friction in our conventional cultural understandings. The work of F(r)iction proposes that architecture is the mediator situating us among the eddies of calamitous trajectories.

The eight projects exhibited are conducted in the context of the Post-Professional M.Arch program at Princeton University School of Architecture where there is a unique opportunity for professionally trained architects to return to the university to pursue a two-year program culminating in a year-long thesis. The 2023 Post-Professional M.Arch Thesis class is coordinated by Professor Jesse Reiser.