League Prize 2015: Thom Moran



The Architectural League Prize 2015
Thom Moran

Ann Arbor, MI-based designer Thom Moran’s work uses “humor to investigate the relationships between architecture, environments and objects.” He employs visual irony, incongruity, and “cognitive slapstick” to find “where space can be funny.”

In his League Prize lecture, titled “Funny Thing,” Moran offers an overview of aspects of humor theory — with references to David Byrne, Sesame Street, and Andy Kaufman, among others — to explain his interest in comical work and the latent potential for humor in architectural practice. Between You & Me is a series of aluminum foil sculptural forms that act as updated caryatids, neither columns nor human figures, “with hilarious and disturbing results.” That exploration, between an inanimate object and the human body, was the basis for A Few Requests, Moran’s installation in the League Prize exhibition. In all his work, Moran seeks to “mess up that clear relationship between fantasy and reality.”

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