CATALOG RAISONNÉ
Edgar Papazian is an artist-architect who has practiced architecture with a license.
He believes in an architecture that embraces people, and reflects care and empathy. An architecture that has the capacity to heal and protect by providing personal space for privacy and thought, free from reductive and restrictive social class roles.
His is an architecture of the maximum depth-of-field, puncturing through, and peripherally around the ever-dominant perspectivalist scopic regime as articulated by Martin Jay.
The many drawings herein are meant to be considered research, autonomous from any built analogues and not simply instruments of service.
Edgar is a graduate of Columbia and Yale Universities and is professor at the New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, USA, where he teaches architectural studios at the college level. He was president of American Institute of Architecture - Peconic chapter in 2024.
This website serves as a location for current research and creative projects (SET-A), and also as a repository of digitised hand-drawn works created between 1993 and 2024 both as a student and as a pracitising architect (SET-B).
“...when designing...I had in mind the human body with arms outstretched, as if embracing all who entered there, which body with outstretched arms is divided in five parts, that is, the breast in the middle, and both arms in two parts each…" – Francesco Borromini, Opus Architectonicum, 1725.
“...He apparently had no significant master and followed no specific architectural tradition. Like some other priest-architects from the major orders... he was first of all an intellectual - a mathematician and a philosopher - and for him architecture was a form of erudition.” -Richard Pommer (referring to the architect Guarino Guarini), Eighteenth-Century Architecture in Piedmont, 1961.