Kruti Patel

I am a multi-disciplinary designer working as a qualified architect and freelance artist based in London.

My work focuses on the idea of "˜Architecture through the window', where the manifestation of stories of journeys and actions that are marked out by the citation of the place that authorise them. My window questions concealment viewed as a focal point at which bonded spaces; like a room, is void of the overtone of voyeurism that attaches to looking into a room. The frames become an instrument that mutilates and the windowpane becomes the carriers of the view that is joined in a metamorphosis by an obstacle on the road.

I am interested in representing visual movement, at which a train of momentary images split into frames based around the retinal and memory images pieced together as a filmstrip. The foreground, middle ground and background are condensed in an image onto the flat surface of the window (canvas) by means of vertical and horizontal bars.

Additionally, I have investigated the idea of sensory spaces and their potential for a heightened sensory experience and its emotional responses. My narrative of sensory experiences explores the phenomenal aspects of a place, forging a new and emphatic relationshi...

2009 -2011, RIBA Part III in Architecture, Bartlett, UCL
2006 - 2008, Dip Arch, RIBA Part II in Architecture, The University of Nottingham
2002 - 2005, BArch (Hons) RIBA Part I in Architecture, The University of Nottingham