Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020

Fall into Focus program / SEPTEMBER 2023
Dirk Bahmann
South Africa
About
I am an architect, artist, academic and maker studying, (Wits
school of arts) and working at School of Architecture at the
University of the Witwatersrand. Currently, I am embarked on
a creative practice PhD that seeks methods to articulate the
ineffable nature/s of Numinous architectural atmospheres
and their use within an architectural pedagogy.
Ruminating about atmospheres
My time at Arteles was spent in an inner laboratory of stillness,
away from my familiar, pressured and routine world. The
emptiness offered me a freedom to be engulfed and moulded
by the wonder of the simple everyday atmospheres of nature.
These experiences are forming a well from which I draw on
in my research, in developing my own understandings of how
we construct our world atmospherically.