denver COLORDAO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

clark THENHAUS / Endemic: Carr Castle and Ornamental Gardens was a proposal for the Pruitt Igoe Now Competition integrating an architectural solid, (Chapel), with an informal, ornamental berm garden. Given the multi-layered contextual complexity of both physical and virtual histories in North St. Louis, this proposal concentrated on the physical qualities of a topographic garden and carved solid as cultural and social mediums, rather then directly economic or political strategies. Landform and mass thus serve as both a strategy of erasure, yet simultaneously as a material residue of remembrance through object and field.

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denver COLORADO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

clark THENHAUS / Endemic: Fluid Matrices is a series that begins with analogue, alchemic drawings using various types of ink, dye, wax, salt, and water each with organizational and material tendencies fostering a drawing technique dependant on the interaction of fluid material effects. The analogue drawings as shown are image-adjusted stills of an otherwise durational process of mixing, repelling, contracting, or material resistances which initiate the drawing as a field underpinned by sensing over deciphering, meaning they are better described through density then area, for example. The drawings are multi-scalar, textural, atmospheric, sensate, and tangible material compositions through which field, zones of indeterminacy, material tendencies, boundaries, and effects are curated through color, texture, transparency, shifting hierarchies, and idiosyncracies.

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lexington KENTUCKY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

craig CHAMBERLAIN, victor SMITH, madelynn RINGO: Translations (a workshop series hosted by Kyle Miller, Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Kentucky, College of Design).

“Translations” is a series of lectures and workshops organized around the concept of employing multiple modes of making, a diverse set of design techniques and mixed media within the architectural design process. Multiplication and hybridity of making ensures a cyclical design process in which concepts are translated from state to state, opening the possibility for interpretation, intuition, and innovation within the process of architectural design.

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lexington KENTUCKY

Clark Thenhaus is founder and principal of multi-disciplinary design studio Endemic. His design work and drawings have been widely exhibited and published both in the US and internationally. Clark is currently Associate Lecturer in landscape at RMIT in Melbourne and has previously taught at numerous institutions in the US in both landscape and architecture. Clark earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied as the 3-year Fidelli Fellow.

clark THENHAUS
Friday, 04/06
5.00 pm / 209 Pence Hall
University of Kentucky
College of Design
117 Pence Hall
Lexington, KY 40506

los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

clark THENHAUS: The Star Gardens are abandoned agrarian silos across dotting the American mid-west landscape which have been re-conceptualized as empty vessels for star gazing and simple contemplation.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

clark THENHAUS: The “Terra Nullis; Delinquent Vernacular” drawing series chronicles 5 fictional characters throughout agrarian history, pairing drawings and narrative with various topics of research. The Jepeto Rambunctious drawings are 3′ to 6′ long ink-alchemy mixtures. Made of ink, water, salt, and wax Rambunctiouos’ drawings were developed as alternative organizational strategies intended to challenge the inelastic Jeffersonian grid of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.

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melbourne AUSTRAILIA

public lecture by feature article writer clark THENHAUS 19 august 2010
6:00-7:00pm RMIT Casey Plaza
launch / exhibition
7:30 - late 1000 Bend Gallery

kerb18 PlastiCity FantastiCity is the search for the future city. It interrogates the design of current cities and hyper-escalates ideas to a fictional realm, taking concepts to the brink of sanity. It aims to produce a collaboration of designers from different fields to produce less selfish ownership of designs.

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