University of Virginia Guest Workshop․
I conducted a guest workshop titled 2.1 File > Export Selected… for Jose Ibarra (Assistant Professor in Architecture, University of Virginia)
for his course titled Work in Process.
The course argued for architecture not only as form-making, but also as performance, literally and metaphorically. Opposed to the rigidity and fixity of objects and things, an event (or performance) is driven by contingency and volatility. Students explored the conventional and alternative ways in which architecture can be communicated: from public speaking to theater, or from extemporaneous accounts of the work, to scripted media, and even performances. Specifically, this component of the course will develop a public event for an existing architectural project, taking the shape of a client presentation, a participatory play, a surrealist video, and other existing or imagined forms of presentation.
My workshop was based on Artigas and Cascaldi’s School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo. I wanted to show students how to highlight the most important feature of the building: the building circulation that ties the architecture together. Equally as important to my process, was to showcase the rest of the architecture in a less dominant way.
Images sourced from Atlas of Places
Student Work․
