Schedule
Fri, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (1/6/2014 - 4/18/2014) Location: MAIN MAIN 160
Fri, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (1/6/2014 - 4/18/2014) Location: MAIN MAIN LABPC
Description
Allow this simple play on words;
An architecture of complexity and accommodation does not forsake the hole because the hole is difficult to achieve. In fact, I have referred to a special obligation toward the hole because the hole is difficult to achieve.
This visual studies seminar is constructed to interrogate the problem of openings in surfaces and masses. Often referred to in Architecture as aperture, we will set a less lofty terminology to open the territory for exploration and interpretation. In recent history as architecture has worked through its manifestations as contiguous, homogeneous un-difficult ?wholes? the problem of the ?hole? has often been forsaken; In the early days of digital design and the emergence of the differential surface or ?blob? in architecture the problem of the opening was often sidestepped, unsolved or incredibly inelegant. Later the ?hole? was often understood through screens, fields, computational gradients and / or of the same form, material and cha