Hi I’m Austeja! I am an aspiring Architect and have just finished my second year of master’s in architecture!
In my time in architectural education and work experience, I have continued to have a consistent enthusiasm for learning and applying new skills. I have progressed my software knowledge into creating unique forms of visual representation of architectural ideas.
As well as being able to work on different writings of Architecture, which brought out another narrative on how to understand and conceptualise architecture, especially in my final year of masters, thesis project “Exploration of Fictional Architecture in the Possible World of Jules Verne”. Where I delved into the fictional possibilities of visions of the future, technology and science fiction. Which is further explored in the accompanying design project “Project Nemo: The Last Mission” where I continued to explore Verne’s possibilities and speculative boundaries of design.
The contents within this thesis are aimed to take you on a journey back to Verne’s era of literature, to place our minds into the 19th century to explore the genre of SF as a form of wonder and new knowledge, in the exploration of the making of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Through this exercise of fictionally travelling back in time, it will help focus on isolating the knowledge we have of everything that has happened since the 1800’s. To define where Verne utilised the minimal knowledge many readers would have had on the then modern technology, which may seem obvious to us in the present.
The fragmented display of facsimiles is a reminder of the tangible format, and the experiences of reading on paper. As a reader in 2025, we are living in Verne’s ‘possible future’, and he is in our actual past. This is important in considering different perceptions of Verne’s writings, have they changed over time? What ideas have lived out to be a reality or have they remained fictional? Our position allows us to evaluate the successes of creating fictions of the future by living in the said future and what does this mean for our future?
The MArch Architecture is a two-year full-time or three-year part-time programme offering exemption from ARB/RIBA Part 2. It combines rigorous professional training with creative and speculative design exploration. In the first year, students join a themed design unit to undertake a creative building design project combined with a technical and professional report. In the second year, students pursue a comprehensive speculative architectural design project, and an in-depth theoretical thesis tailored to their personal interest. The programme fosters independent thinking, innovation, theoretical and technical excellence, preparing graduates for advanced architectural practice and ongoing professional development in a dynamic global context.
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