STUDIO OVERVIEW
This semester we continue along the path of adaptation and transformation within the context of architectural history, specifically the revolutionary period in France, England, and Italy. My working theses seeks to “project” * things from the past, like buildings and drawings, into the future to preserve and re-energize them.
This new chapter looks at the formation of various 21st century programmed architectural installations into the revolutionary drawings of the French architect Étienne-Louis Boulée, Claude Nicholas Ledoux, and of course, our very reliable Italian architect and archaeologist Giambattista Piranesi.
Much of the work of the architect is prospecting historic buildings, preserving, while at the same time refreshing – this refreshing in many instances promoted through installation architecture, some temporary, a strategy by which history is respected, but the prime motivator is the future. Museum, Library, or Media programs would be considered examplar.
My methodology includes close examinations of these magnificent drawings, many in person, with students generating beautiful high-quality conversations by making orthographic drawings and models inside of these historic masterpieces.
Students work will be featured in the forthcoming monograph, Quantum Poems, a unique design teaching methodology which is formed around recording the past, present and future based on the multi world interpretation of quantum physics.