REPRESENT / NARRATE / EXPERIENCE: Architectural Representation I
Join us for the opening of REPRESENT / NARRATE / EXPERIENCE, an exhibition of work produced by first-year MArch 3 students in the core seminar, Architectural Representation I. The exhibition will remain on view through December 7.
Mark-making is as instinctively human as is speaking, and drawing can therefore be equated to communication. In architecture, the drawing—whether done by hand or digitally—must be able to communicate without words. In this course, the focus has been on the continuous dialogue between various modes of representation in an effort to communicate narrative. Students considered drawing as action-oriented, instructional, and always in flux, navigating non-linearly between hand-drafting, physical modeling, digital modeling, and digital drawing. Emphasis was placed on orthographic and axonometric projections, as well as overall drawing composition.
This semester, the course anchored around three verbs: REPRESENT, NARRATE, EXPERIENCE. Students used drawing to represent objects and spaces that they have designed, to tell a story, and to create compelling compositions that are to be experienced in physicality. The exhibition showcases three projects that progress in scale from [object] to [body] to [space] to [form]. These projects, linked by the conceptual underpinning, have all evolved from the first initial drawing, which in itself was based on the construction of a bench in the pre-semester studio. The body of work therefore celebrates the generative nature of the design process, constantly evolving between phases and iterations.
Faculty: Amela Parčić and Jess Vanecek
TA: Casey Niblett
Students: Giulia Acchione, Fatimah Alsaggaf, Zhuoyun Chen, Paul Davey, Abraham Diaz, Kaitlyn Dooley, Nour Fuqa, Heather Heidbreder, Cody Heller, Joseph Henke, Bryan Justice, Miso Lee, Sijia Liu, Mark Ma, Britton McCorkle, Macy Morley, Cam Rowe, Amani Shammaa, Sydnee Strong, Andrej Velickovski, Grace Whittington, Sharon Wu, Emily Yin, and Henry Zhang.