SCI-Arc NEWS
01.12.08
1A Studio Project
Opening reception, exhibition, and publication launch
Friday, January 25, 2008, 7-9pm
A student’s first studio often lays claim to architecture’s ostensibly essential qualities, attempting to name modes of production without which architecture cannot appear. Like any introduction, however, an introductory project may merely aim to construct a productive initial connection, in this case between a student’s work and the discipline.
Proceeding through a series of short projects, students worked with various conventional media between two- and three-dimensions. At the beginning of each assignment, however, the students subjected their latest project to new formal and structural operations. In early stages, work began with individual projects; the studio later moved to team designing and competition, and finally to a collaborative project. Construction of the project proceeded from the competition’s winning proposal.
Throughout the sequence of interconnected projects, the studio attempted to displace ideas of completion by repeatedly operating on seemingly finished projects. This hand-assembled, collaboratively constructed project is a residue of the studio’s working method, suspended between completion and obsolescence.
Studio Instructors: Andy Ku, Marcos Sánchez, Jenny Wu