Final Post?

Grades are up and for all intentions and purposes this class is over and this blog is dead. If you are upset with the grade you received for this class or studio I would like to direct you to this post by Rex.

I appreciate all of your hard work this semester and I think we were very successful in standing out in both the quality and quantity of our work compared to that of other studios at this class level. I hope all of you go on to kick ass and take names, hopefully we have armed you with the skills necessary for this endeavor.

Intangible J, signing off.

Arne Quinze and Implementation

I have been following the work of Arne Quinze for some time now. His work may be controversial due to the environment that he sets them up in, but I think that the juxtaposition between his pieces and the surroundings lends a very interesting feel to his art. It is easy to see the architectural tendency of his art, which opens up a new discussion:


We are all familiar with the work of leading deconstructionist architects such as Libeskind, Hadid and the infamous Gehry, but the debate has continued over the relevancy of their built work. If the building does not function as a building, then is it architecture?


Maybe as architects we should embrace new concepts, theories and most importantly; technology. But instead of harnessing these elements into forms of the past, we should look to forms of the future, or better yet, new mediums to publish designs. The best part of Hadid's work are the paintings she creates to argue her design. I do not think these buildings should ever jump from the canvas, their potency is evident enough.


I call for all of us as young designers, artists and architects to challenge the conventional mediums of publication and seek new methods to push the boundaries of what is architectural design. Maybe the point of this class was not to use the computer to manufacture standard practices, but to understand the computer as a tool to further expand our design vocabulary.