vienna AUSTRIA

In his well known essay, ”Translations from Drawings to Buildings,” critic Robin Evans articulates that architects are challenged by the fact that, unlike other artistic pursuits, we don’t directly manipulate our medium—we don’t build buildings—and that, therefore, we develop complex traffic between drawings and buildings. Oyler Wu Collaborative has challenged that notion. First, they extend the design of their work well into the fabrication phase by constructing many of the projects themselves. Second, they have expanded the notion of lines to operate beyond a 2-D drawing by literally constructing lines in three dimensions to become architecture.

dwayne OYLER & jenny WU, “Lineworks”
Thursday, 11/22
7.00 pm / Lichthof 2, IoA
Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2
1010 Vienna, Austria

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Screenplay is conceived of as a “play” on one’s visual perception. This twenty-one foot long screen wall is constructed of forty-five thousand linear feet of rope strung through a series of lightweight steel frames. The wall is designed with the intention of provoking a sense of curiosity by slowly revealing its form and complexity through physical and visual engagement with the work. The wall is made from a repetitious steel framework with rope infill that varies over the length of the wall in three dimensions, forming a thickened undulating screen made up of dense line-work. In its orthographic, or “straight-on” view, the wall forms a meticulously organized series of patterns easily recognized by the viewer.

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los angeles CALIFORINA

Advisor: Dwayne Oyler
Special Advisor: Russell Thomsen, Jason Payne.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
carmelia CHIANG: “An art professor once told me that in composition, elements should either overlap or there should be some space between them; that it produces discomfort when things were tangential. . . .” — John Baldessari

This thesis explores the implication of tangential space: the condition caused by two surfaces, either physical or implied, approaching to touch at a single point. The moment of the new kiss resolves itself in spatial discomfort, awkwardness and tension.

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