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Tatiana Southey is an architectural assistant, artist and printmaker, graduating from the Bartlett School of Architecture where she learnt to embody ideas in materials through the process of making and drawing, developing an architecture of transformation. Her skills were nurtured by Nat Chard and Emma-Kate Matthews in Unit 25 through her final project Impressions and Impressors.
Working between analogue and digital techniques, she used the process of printmaking to reveal ‘micro histories’ of the materials, all invoking a passage of time on a surface. Her interest in the possible experiential dislocations arising from non linear perceptions of time led her to develop a thesis through site-writing, demonstrating ways of capturing memories, working between the sites of the printroom, the materiality of collected rocks and objects and remote geographic locations.
She completed her BA (Hons) at Oxford Brookes University with a First Class Honours and nominations for both ‘RIBA Bronze President's Medal’ and ‘Best Hand Drawn Visualisation’ Awards. Her process translated into her Part 1 experience working directly for Will Alsop at All Design in London and Jimenez Lai in Bureau Spectacular in Los Angeles, where she came to understand the cross-disciplinary and sociological nature of architecture.
Currently whilst working, she still continues to explore ideas related to the acquisition of memory in modern day life. Her recent research in Central Asia as a consequence of the MAD Travel Fellowship, explores the environment as a mediator to preserve memory, which in the guise of preservation undergoes a process of reconstruction and manipulation.
