architectural projection
Modeling form and Phenomena
By Carl Lostritto | Dec 07, 2012
In the last post on this topic it was noted that, “the Architectural Projection course continues to oscillate between media.” The same is still true two weeks later as students have adapted their methods of measure to include the translation of physical information into the space of a digital model. The most recent prompt asks continue reading…
Measuring and Mapping
By Carl Lostritto | Nov 13, 2012
The Architectural Projection course continues to oscillate between media. Students are now charged with mapping their still-life. Much has changed since the first day of class when we were drawing an assemblage of found objects. Now the subject of inquiry includes two section cuts and the marks made on those objects, which are a record continue reading…
Marking Observations; Observing Marks
By Carl Lostritto | Oct 06, 2012
Architectural Projection is a new course being taught for the first time by Christopher Bardt (who is the coordinator), Kyna Leski, Carl Lostritto, and Pari Riahi. Our charge is to introduce systems of drawing from direct experience and indirect computational operation. Seeing will be framed as an operation in and of itself and representation will be continue reading…
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Hand Meets Machine Mar 01, 2013
For the 70 first-year graduate and undergraduate students required to take the fall 2012 course Architectural Projection, the first assignment couldn’t have been more straightforward. Draw a still life from a fixed point of view, using any medium – charcoal, pencil, paint. What came next, explains Professor Christopher Bardt BArch 83, was a far less obvious assignment, but one that gets at the essence of architectural practice: moving visual information between the page and the object in a systematic, measurable way.
Reconnecting Providence
Jan 31, 2013
In July 2011, Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee signed a bill that set the stage for a major transformation of the cityscape in downtown Providence. The I-195 Commission Bill cleared the way for naming a group to oversee the redevelopment of nearly 40 acres of land freed up by the relocation of the I-195 highway. The project marks a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to restore what was once a vital, cohesive area between downtown and the city’s Jewelry District. But there’s just one problem, says Professor Emeritus Friedrich St. Florian: Of the seven members serving on the I-195 Commission, not one is an architect...
Reimagining the Industrial Waterfront
Dec 03, 2012
Graduate students enrolled in Scales of Operation in the Waterfront have big ideas for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. In the fall studio taught by Senior Critic Enrique Martinez MID 98, students are envisioning fantastical ways to reinvent the 300-acre site that was once America’s leading naval shipyard.Though the site has been transformed into a modern industrial park, a large portion is abandoned. Once the naval yard’s military operations ceased in 1966, many of the facilities that had been used to construct US battleships quietly fell into ruin. “It’s a ghost place in some areas,” Martinez explains. “The piers are in decay...