Silver Winner of the Architecture & Design Collection Awards 2023
The Word Event

Architecture
Custom Architectural Designs

Architect / Designer:
Lafina Eptaminitaki
Country:
United States
The Word Event is an experiment to create architecture using a single text as the only reference. Following a comprehensive exploration of the interplay between language, theater, and architecture — documented in a research booklet — Sarah Kane’s playscript “Psychosis 4.48” was chosen and served as both a linguistic and a spatial tool to initiate the design process. Ten steps of analysis and interpretation (scenes), employing diverse media like video, photography, painting, diagrams, models, and drawings, culminated in the project’s imprint on Gavdos island. The Word Event began as a manifestation of the words within a play to later embody the narratives evoked by its location.