Extent: 1 audio cassette (90min), 4 digital files (715 MB )
Comprises audio recording of a lecture entitled 'It is Me; I am It' given by Mark Cousins on the 19th October, 2001. The recordings consist of a TDK 90 audio cassette tape, 2 digital preservation files (583 MB, .wav format) and 2 digital access files (132 MB, .mp3 format). Duration of access version: 55min 56sec.
Copyright: Architectural Association
Creator: Mark Cousins
Admin History: The recording is of the 1st lecture in the second lecture series entitled 'Psyche and Space', given by Mark Cousins as part of the AA General Studies programme, 2001-2002. In this lecture Mark Cousins outlines his ambition to provide an alternative account to the experience of architecture, by radically excluding any possible form of psychology and phenomenology. He begins with a discussion with Vitruvius' idea of linking the body and architecture, in which the system of regularity, symmetry, harmony, and proportion create a projection of architecture as an object rather than onto an object. Cousins argues that, in a narcissist sense, when one is looking at a building it is also a recognition of the body. This process of identification, as an opposite process of projection, appears to be automatically situated topographically on the inside. Cousins explains that he is concerned not with what could be called the experience of objects, but with questions of identification, not to buildings but to architecture.
Custodial History: Audio cassette recording was made by the AA Audio Visual Department and retained by the AA Photo Library until 2019, when it was transferred to the AA Archives.
Aquisition: Audio cassette was transferred from the AA Photo Library to the AA Archives in 2019. Digital preservation and access copies were created by the AA Archives in 2021.
Archive Note: Catalogue description by Ke Bo Tsai
Publication Note: AA Events List, Autumn Term, Week 3, 15th - 19th October, 2001