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| "Order is more than organization. Organization is the determination of function. Order however imparts meaning. If we would give to each thing what intrinsically belongs to it, then all things would easily fall into their proper place" - Mies |
| I am an artist, architect, and teacher working in Philadelphia Pa. |
| Three components have marked my work; the development of site as a ontological construct, the quotidian overlay of path through inhabitation and barrier, and the act of drawing opposing figures to create diagrams of architectonic constructs. |
| These shelters take the form of the “cutaway model,” a model able to highlight simultaneous conditions within closed systems. Here, adjacencies and displaced parts, previously hidden from view, are brought into a present focus. The plans are romantic diagrams, the point of view is the "bird’s eye", and there are ruins, relics, and an idealized memory of origin. |
| I understand that architecture speaks in the language of “inarticulate narrative” that Poet Octavio Paz defines as architecture’s condition. The collision of Subject with Object ground this perceptual language. |
| I am committed to an understanding of practice that is not exclusively related to the making of art works, but also includes the establishing of institutions for the experience and use of art, and generally the making of institutions for human life |
John Hejduk, my mentor, preached the need to develop a critical practice. Hejduk posited the architect’s embrace of programs and methods not afforded by commercial practice as a way of challenging the repetition of a built world uninvolved with the social contract. He speculated on how noncommercial proposals are developed and potentially come to light despite the overwhelming marginalization of this type of shadow work within professional life.
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| Richard Taransky 2008 |
| About the work : |
| Family Sections |
by Dan Hoffman Architect - ASU- Studio MA
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Crystal Lands
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by Professor Donald Kunze - PSU
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| Present Memorials : Houses of Passage |
by Tim McDonald - Onion Flats - FAARM
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