drawing hands

heads of state

op-art from the ny times.

Hair is a language; it announces our gender, class and even our politics.

nightwalking

tim knowles is a british artist performing unique and rigorous explorations mapping movement and recording the disturbances of ephemera

drawing the ground

an intensity and rigor of documentation and invention that lets you enjoy the white space.

section as record of measurements [notice "datum" and relative "x" and "y" positions as structuring lines of the drawing] and using lineweight [read: hierarchy] to distinguish between ground and building – a distinction intentionally blurred here to suggest an integration of the two. something that your drawings, if not your shelters, should likely aspire to:

from pamphlet architecture 28: augmented landscapes, smout allen.

drawing potential + operation

using lineweight + linetype to diagram range of potential conditions, operability of rainwater collection “bladder” and structuring “arms”

from pamphlet architecture 28: augmented landscapes, smout allen:

concept as operation

concept diagram for the eyebeam museum of art and technology by diller+scofidio[+renfro] [2004]

pliable ribbon and resident/visitors

union square

site readings: mall marionettes

display panels

re-installing display cases. collaboration w. iliescu. east lobby as hinge between building addition + existing line of display walls. leverage production-scale router to fabricate plywood “peg-board” for system of posts + hooks to secure cases of various sizes.

“unfolded” elevations of doors + peg-boards: rhythm of vertical mullion frames extended as field.

summer teaching

vitruvian + modular men + women drawing out lessons on proportion + the scale of the body

amtrak installation … stalled

a project from june 3 – 30, working with w. on a traveling exhibit space. trespassing on an amtrak train car to tell the story of pullman porters – typically african-american employees of the pullman [palace car] company from the mid-19th to early 20th c. – who inhabited that era’s racial divide as menial laborers and train-slaves to white passengers, yet respected leaders in their communities whose travels spread news and cultural influence north to south and back again …

started with a reading of tye’s rising from the rails, and a ride on the crescent from c-ville to DC, which inspired plans for more train rides with cameras …

exhibit concept leverages the low ceilings of the train car and the datum of seat-backs along an aisle : exhibit panels, display ledges and several seating conditions emerge from a continuous, folded ceiling surface above …

on the heels of national train day [may 9, celebrated in philadelphia] and recruitment efforts tracking down the last of these porters, had hoped to get further than these models + drawings … information from amtrak is not forthcoming, so we’re stalled