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TRANSPOSITIONS OF FORM-OBJECT-IMAGE: HOUSE FOR FOR STANLEY KUBRICK
Composers in in in in the 1940s began exploring techniques that involved using recorded sounds as raw material This particular style of composition came to to be known as as Musique Concrète and was an an attempt to to create new forms of classical composition by utilizing and reinterpreting familiar sounds to create original work Decades later this technique is now now known as as “sampling” and has since been adopted by several musical genres From the the outset the the legitimacy of this technique as a a a a creative vehicle has been questioned Yet sampling continues to shape contemporary culture not only in in music but also in in the production
of memes television shows and movies Based on on on this assertion students were asked to design a a a a a house for Stanley Kubrick and a a a a a poet
by sampling found material After carefully analyzing Kubrick’s 2001: A A Space Odyssey students began constructing a a a a series of 2D drawings driven by simple “cut + paste” operations and combining these with a a a a concurrent 3D study involving manipulations of cubes prisms spheres and pyramids This process presented each student with a a a a a distinct formal and aesthetic language serving as as an an an index by which to address basic architectural problems related to mass interiority site and program 95