"Studio Analog" - Architecture Studio Class
January
27 - February 10, 2010
Our
stance on Architecture - its processes, craft, and renderings - is that
there can be a poetic
experience of a place that flares the imaginations of men, thus lending
meaning to the place. This is
what we have termed ‘big A’ Architecture, and it is rare.
The
[observer] is asked to consider an image not as an object and even less as
the substitute for
an object, but to seize its specific reality - so says Gaston.
Our
creative process is a difficult one full of late nights, an unhealthy amount
of coffee, and the
constant flickering of shadowy visions. It is an understanding of this mind
imagery that we seek. We
spent our first seven weeks during the fall in a regular discourse. We read
selectively from Jane
Hirshfield’s Nine Gates, Martin Heidegger’s Poetry, Language, & Thought, and
Gaston Bachelard’s
The Poetics of Space, and then translated these works into our own thoughts
of the particular
subjects. We then gathered to analyze our ideas and ‘made a something’. The
artifacts had to be
authentic, hand-made (analog), and generate a poetic image justified by the
revelations of our
studies. The final step is always a reflection on what was learned so that
we may grow.
Everything changes, everything is connected, pay attention - so says Jane.
In our
vision of what we are doing, this realization allows us to work towards
Architecture by means
of an artistic exploration of poetry. The point of the first wave of our
pursuits was to find a firm set of
individual ’poetic tools’ so that we might imbue such qualities into our
Architectural creations. The
results and our further studies have shown us that the translation of poetry
into a successful Architecture
of meaning would be wrenching.
Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I
had not thought death had undone so many. - T.S. Eliot
Our thesis projects are still infantile as they grow from trace paper and
coffee. This work emerges
from T.S. Eliot’s poem The Wasteland, a mold-shattering gem critiquing
modernity itself (Eliot’s
voice dampens the gallery as you view our work). With this, we initially
performed as we had in our
earlier studies, by deriving a personal meaning and analyzing it. We have
each defined what The
Wasteland means to us, both as a work of art and as a possible Architectural
proposition. Now we
go forth on separate journeys.
Note that little of our thesis projects can yet be shown outside of our
sticky brains (and therefore is not displayed).
Poetically, man dwells - so says Martin
This show
intends a display of the work influential to our individual thinking and
craft of Architecture.
A poetic theory requires each step to stand as a work of art. Works of art
flow two ways as an
exchange IF the observer finds personal meaning in a work. That is the goal
of these projects and
the ultimate goal of their result at the end.
We are twelve fifth-year, graduate-level, Architecture students and one tall
professor. We invite you
to see and know more by way of our studio in Seaton Hall, room 109. Like us,
you will know it when
you see it.
So say we.
Additional Arts information:
Marianna
Kistler Beach Museum of Art
** Manhattan
Arts Center **
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