Designing for amusement: From the intention to the interpretation of architectural humour in Post-Modern Britain

幽默作为一种形式已经在几种艺术中被研究过，比如绘画或音乐，但还没有在建筑中被研究过。它甚至被视为建筑物中偶然的负面质量。该项目旨在表明幽默已经成为建筑师意图的一部分，并已被评论家如此解读。该研究认为，这种讨论一直出现在英国建筑后现代主义（1970-1990），但由于建筑理论中普遍存在的讽刺而未被研究。有人声称，反讽的娱乐潜力在其理论化过程中被低估了，而且理论上对反讽的关注还没有考虑到建筑可以娱乐的其他方式。通过档案研究、访谈、对流行和建筑媒体报道的评论以及参观，将对选定的文本和建筑进行研究，以揭示建筑幽默的不同主题，探索他们的反应通过这个项目，我的目标是让幽默在学科中被接受和研究，并展示其对建筑设计和体验的历史意义。

Humour as form has been studied in several arts, like painting or music, but not yet in architecture. It is even seen as an accidental, negative quality in buildings. This project aims to show that humour has been part of architects' intentions and has been interpreted so by critics.The study argues that such discussions emerged consistently during architectural Post-Modernism in Britain (1970-1990), but remained unstudied due to a prevalence of irony in architectural theory. It is claimed that irony's potential to be amusing has been downplayed in its theorisation, but also that the theoretical focus on irony has not allowed a consideration of other ways in which architecture can be amusing.Selected texts and buildings will be studied, through archival research, interviews, reviews of coverage in popular and architectural press, and visits, to uncover different motifs of architectural humour, and explore their reception. Through this project, I aim to allow humour to be accepted and investigated within the discipline, and present its historical significance for architectural design and experience.