La Coe, Jodi
La Coe, Jodi
Bio Sketch
Jodi La Coe is an architect, architectural historian, and educator: registered architect in Pennsylvania, SEED-certified, and faculty with the School of Architecture at Marywood University, with a Master of Architecture in History and Theory of Architecture from McGill University (2000) and a PhD in Architecture and Design Research from Virginia Tech (2019). Her scholarship concerns theories of representation and the visualization of spatial dimensions — from Baroque quadrature and perspective theory (her McGill thesis, "Andrea Pozzo: The Joining of Truth and Illusion," became the wiki's ingested chapter) to doctoral work on László Moholy-Nagy's space-time stage-set experiments — alongside a practice focus on zero-energy housing and Social, Economic, and Environmental Design. Her "Quadrature" chapter is the third chapter of Gregory Marinic's Interior Architecture Reader (2018), following Hollis's historiography and Deyong's style genealogy.
Key Works
- *Quadrature: The joining of truth and illusion in the interior architecture of Andrea Pozzo* (2018) — chapter 3 of The Interior Architecture Reader (ed. Gregory Marinic, Routledge); reads Pozzo's quadrature as early interior architecture, joining the fictitious to the real within Cartesian space.
- Expanding Field of Architecture: Women in Practice Across the Globe (Lund Humphries) — co-edited with Marcia Feuerstein and Paola Zellner-Bassett.
- Dissertation research on László Moholy-Nagy's Partiturskizze zu einer mechanischen Exzentrik and experiments in higher spatial dimensions (PhD, Virginia Tech, 2019).
Key Concepts
Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:
- quadrature — Pozzo's perspectival interior illusion as embodied, anchored illusion
- perspective — Cartesian homogeneous space and its discontents
- anamorphosis — the oblique illusion Descartes could not tolerate
- interior-architecture — the discipline to which she retroactively admits Pozzo
- embodiment — the embodied observer within the constructed illusion
Relevance to the Core Research
La Coe's chapter gives the wiki's interior cluster its deep history: a premodern, spiritual, fully embodied case of interior architecture in which the viewer's position — marked in the floor — is the design's central datum. It connects the Reader's historiographic opening (Hollis) and style genealogy (Deyong) to the phenomenology cluster: the "transcendental interior experience" staged at the convergence point anticipates, from the Baroque side, the wiki's embodiment and interiority territory, while the Descartes episode supplies the philosophical genealogy of the ocularcentrism that Pallasmaa's haptic turn attacks. Her translation argument — joining the fictitious to the real (or true) rather than to "solid Architecture" — also gives the wiki a premodern root for the truth/illusion problematic that runs through the spectacle cluster.
Source Support
Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:
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