Description
Geometric reveries in architecture are quickly quelled by the brute bearing
of matter. Where to put all of that stuff that gets in the way? The tactics for
reconciling mass with a geometric construct - the various alignments,
off-sets, extrusions and symmetries of architecture - generally seek a tidy
logic that accounts for all the mass in as consistent a manner as possible
(sometimes to hilarious effect as in the courtyard of Santa Maria della
Pace). While sophisticated responses to this question undergird the entire
working tradition of architecture, giving us everything from poch? to the
corner problem, this seminar intends to mine the potential found in a
cruder approach. The approach will be to reexamine (or, more properly,
productively misunderstand) the translation from two dimensions to three
dimensions.
The first part of the seminar - Graphic Wrap - will take as its point of departure
gift wrapping gone wrong. Ranging from studies of crude printing
effects to the