● architecture & design
​Architecture on Modern European Banknotes

Date Completed: 2021/12/12
Medium Used: MS Word + Photoshop 
Original Size: Letter-size 8.5"x11"
Type of Project: Independent Research Essay

Description: ​​
My writings focused intensively on demystifying the imagery of 1996 European currency design and how it facilitates the movement of architectural awareness on a global scale. It also inquires how elements of society and an imagined community contribute to the construction of European identity in the context of global and national instabilities throughout the recent decades. It is only after these topics have been critically interrogated that we can surmise whether or not the circulation of abstractions (de)motivates stability of both architectural pedagogy and European national identity.

​My research essay has been awarded the Patricia and Peter Shannon Wilson Undergraduate Research Prize scholarship in May of 2022. It also earned its place in University of Toronto’s TSpace which serves as a free and secure online research repository to disseminate and preserve scholarly records, including graduate-level student research. 

I make reference to Anna Pang's art exhibition presenting the fictive architecture of the Euronotes as sugar sculptures. Confiction explores the symbolic function of the euro architecture by giving it form and context in sugar. Additionally, I also make reference of Robin Stam’s Bridges of Europe which are painstakingly precise recreations of the images found on the back-side of Euro banknotes, right down to the bright colours associated with banknote artwork.

> Click here to view my research essay on TSpace.