chicago ILLINOIS

UIC SoA, Spring 2012
Thomas Kelley (Coordinator)

Details are vague. They range in scale, application, material, appearance, and ideology. Details are parts, details are wholes. Details lie, details tell the truth, and details don’t say anything at all. This is the folly of the detail; the doomed tendency towards an ambiguous list of definitions. And while details may often arrive at the end of an architectural process, this studio aims to confront the architectural detail from the start.

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chicago ILLINOIS

UIC’s Platforms Digital Design Workshop provides architecture and design students and professionals with a thorough introduction to contemporary methods and techniques in architectural communication. The brief camp offers an opportunity to develop familiarity with digital tools for three-dimensional composition in software and the generation of advanced forms and to become comfortable working with complex geometries. . . .

Platforms 2012 will be taught by UIC Assistant Professor Paul Preissner.
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Workshop: 08/13 — 06/16
UIC SOA (M/C 030)
Room 3100 Art + Architecture Building
845 West Harrison Street
Chicago, ILLINOIS 60607

chicago ILLINOIS

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

ryan MACYAUSKI + marcella MARTINEZ: high contrast offers a way to regain a sense of political purpose within architecture, by recommitting architecture to visual reflection of contemporary culture, while at the same time avoiding the pitfalls of relentless abstraction and needless invention. we propose to engage in effects in a novel way, not through gymnastic routines of form, nor through cluttered collage differences, but to utilize a full bandwidth of effects, to provide true projected sensation.

critic: paul PREISSNER - uic school of architecture

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