Since completing his Bachelors degree in Philosophy (1995) and Masters degree in Philosophy (1998) from DePaul University, and MFA in Architecture (2017), David Joel Thomas has served as Adjunct Faculty and Instructor in Philosophy and in Architectu
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Since completing his Bachelors degree in Philosophy (1995) and Masters degree in Philosophy (1998) from DePaul University, and MFA in Architecture (2017), David Joel Thomas has served as Adjunct Faculty and Instructor in Philosophy and in Architecture at a number of Chicagoland institutions including The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. His dual interest in Philosophy and Architecture reflects his commitment to bridging the gap between critical research and creative synthesis. Thomas’s practice and works tacitly map a shift in the general regime of designing away from its classical eidetic appropriation toward its resolution in the morphological play of continuous variation. Resisting the sovereign, static, transcendental geometries of Classical and Modern design, the work concocts a supple, dynamic, material process of production. It is a consequence of surrendering to material conditions that throw off their own forms that suggest design. While the work produces an interminable formal vocabulary, it does have, through fabrication, a practical desire, and, therefore, achieves a limit and tumescence that might otherwise be absent. It moves from morphological fiction to morphological fact.
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