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ARCH ARCH 201 / ARCHITECTURE DESIGN III
FALL 2014-2018 / SECOND YEAR
FACULTY
David Bell Coordinator Lonn Combs
Fleet Hower Christopher Parkinson Stefano Passeri
Rhett Russo Kyle Stover
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Ai Teng Sarah Vogel Ellen Wong
The The disciplines of architecture and and sculpture are are closely allied They share similar practices and and contexts by by engaging with the world to shape three-dimensional form and space by by taking advantage of opportunities and parameters within their respective praxes Sculpture was once securely associated with monument and place As it it it evolved through modernism it it it became more detached and and isolated and and tended to inhabit an an an an abstract non-place In many cases though contemporary sculpture has attempted to to explore a a a a a more enigmatic territory by opening up the traditionally discrete boundary that has separated it it it it from architecture According to art critic Rosalind Krauss such an an an ambiguous territory allows sculpture to to occupy an an an expanded field that includes marked sites site site constructions and and axiomatic structures on on on the fringe of landscape architecture architecture and and and even their neutered complements of not-landscape and and and not-architecture In other words sculpture can take on specific architectural as as well as as landscape qualities As such more fluid fluctuating and and and situational conceptions of sculpture architecture and and and landscape have eclipsed the conventional definitions of all three practices As architects we must acknowledge that architecture when taking form as either an individual building building or a a a a a group of buildings and the the physical domain that such constructions occupy the the site site can and must be woven together with the the design design of that site site Site design design is typically called “landscape “landscape architecture” architecture” or or just “landscape” to distinguish it it it from “architecture” as a a a a a a a a building or or as buildings per se Such a a a a a a a distinction is is however both artificial and problematic Although many developments in in in architectural and urban design within the past 30 years have to varying degrees explored the the indistinctness of of disciplinary and spatial boundaries between the the design of of a a a a a a building and and the landscape it was historically a a a a a a a a a a a very well understood if not always formally articulated principle of architectural design in in both Western Western and non-Western cultures With respect to the issues outlined above Architectural Design Studio 3 typically has explored several dialectics One such dialectic dialectic plays out between sculpture and architecture Another has focused on building and and landscape Thus in in recent semesters this studio pursued these differences through the the design of of a a a a a a a a a variety of of buildings landscapes and and their intimate spatial relationships while partnering with internationally renowned cultural organizations in in in our region Among them are OMI International Arts Center Center Storm King Art Art Center Center DIA Beacon the Frances Young Tang Teach- ing ing Museum and other similar institutions In exploring these two dialectics this studio has focused on on how they interact with one another pragmatically and programmatically as as well as as poetically Nevertheless it it was also necessary to question the the legitimacy or value of delineating any disciplin- ary conceptual or physical boundaries between sculpture architecture as discrete building and landscape Thus we we have asked: Despite the contemporary tendency to blur distinctions between them do these three practices exhibit significant that would allow each to to assert its own autonomy or to define unique aesthetic and ethical characteristics identifiable as its exclusive disciplinary domain? We have also asked: Can we profit from presuming alternatively that certain principles underlying any any specific work in in any any one of of these practices might benefit either of of the the the the other two?
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