Title

Emoji Disorder

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Doria Miller, Syracuse UniversityFollow
Irving Shen, Syracuse UniversityFollow

Document Type

Thesis, Senior

Degree

B. ARCH

Date

Spring 2019

Keywords

emoji, elastic architectural design language, decorated shed, 'the duckerated shed', pareidolia analysis, Emoticonstructs, roosevelt island

Language

English

Disciplines

Architecture

Description/Abstract

This thesis posits with the contemporary context of a rising digital and visual dialect, the emoji, the elastic architectural design language has the capability to be updated. The duck, based on form, and the decorated shed, based on signage, are no longer adequate to project meaning on architecture. The emoji is neither purely symbol nor sign and thus it becomes a fusion of the two: a duckerated shed. By referencing a familiar language rather than canonical architectural precedents, those outside of the discipline can better relate to the buildings they inhabit.

Additional Information

Thesis Advisors:

Gregory Corso

Jonathan Louie

Nicole McIntosh

Recommended Citation

Miller, Doria and Shen, Irving, "Emoji Disorder" (2019). Architecture Senior Theses. 442.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_theses/442

Source

Local Input

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.