boston MASSACHUSETTS

Harvard GSD

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Anthony MOREY & Ryan TYLER MARTINEZ: House Untitled looked to the artistic still life as a means of assembly, compositional friction and framework for programmatic, cultural and graphic projection.

Still Life Untitled positions each element/figure in direct association with each other internally as a means to composite an external image as a means to convey its contextuality within the frame of the architectural site.

The composition is split into four key compositional areas of ‘still’ — private (residence), semi-private(guest/rental home), public (front garden), and graphic garden which lay in waiting for ‘life’ to provoke and invoke them through incessant meandering and dwelling.

sP: What or who influenced this project?:
AM & RTM: Architectural Character(s) and follies, semiotics and legibility, children’s stories and novels. Marcel Duchamp, Brancusi, Hans Arp, Man Ray & Joan Miro were key influences in the production of the thought process to the project.

sP: What were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?:
AM & RTM: Boiler Room’s youtube playlist was a constant stream of tunes and images.

sP: Whose work is currently on your radar?:
AM & RTM: Currently the main work on my radar would be contemporary graphic design, Brancusi, DADA, Oulipo and Stéphane Mallarmé have seen a revival in my conceptual thoughts along with Manfredo Tafuri’s theoretical reading. As for contemporary radar positions, it would have to be Emilio Villalba, Michael Rock, Craig Redman, Peter Tarka & Smout Allen.