Description
This seminar will examine large-scale wood members and test their ungainly assembly through unlikely joinery. Wood and wood-seeming material will be fabricated by students through a series of experiments with an eye towards excessive scale and counterintuitive material combinations. A parallel line of inquiry will consider both traditional and experimental joinery approaches. Operating in a zone where construction techniques, model making, and sculpture overlap, the seminar concludes with the construction of large-scale mockups which will occupy an unreasonable amount of space in the school and be difficult to move.
Seminar texts:
A related pictorial essay, also titled Wood/Not Wood, edited by Andrew Zago and exploring a long-running art project by artist and architect Sean Briski, will be published in the upcoming issue of Flat-Out Magazine. In it Briski traces the the cultural impulse for authenticity (and its unraveling) though a series of curated wood, and wood-like, thrift-s