This series of pencil and ink drawings, made using architectural drafting techniques, explores how playing out a system of very simple rules (restricting the angles of lines, repeating components, fractal logic) can yield an effect that is seemingly complex, even chaotic, and that transcends … Continue reading
The Loud Objects (Kunal Gupta, Tristan Perich, & Katie Shima) create electronic noise with minimal components. The group solders custom audio circuits live, creating audible fluctuations of electricity with these bare elements. Gradually building a complex sound circuit, they present … Continue reading
with Sharon Kim music by the Loud Objects graduate school independent research project; critic: Mark Bearak This project was made possible by a grant from the Gatsby Foundation. The project attempted to create an inhabitable field of sound and light … Continue reading
An Architectural Proposal for Buddhism, Democracy, and Global Interconnectedness (2009) At the time of this proposal, in 2009, Bhutan was in the process of transitioning from a monarchy to a democracy. The thesis of this project was that Bhutan, with its … Continue reading
graduate school project; critics: Josh Draper & Joe Vidich This glueless model was made with laser-cut plexiglas panels and clips.
An Architectural Proposal for Registering Environmental and Cultural Change in, on, and about the East River (2008) This project envisions a future in which the East River is seen as an object of engagement and interaction and an architecture that … Continue reading
A Housing Prototype with Zack Aders The feeling of liberation arises less from the total absence or great distance of boundaries than from the perception that they can be crossed. Channeling and shaping wind, light, and being, this prototype transforms … Continue reading
These drawings show several axonometric views of a messenger bag. Each view is rotated from the last using the zipper of the bag as an axis. pen on mylar, 24″ x 24″ graduate school project; critic: Nicole Robertson
These paintings are the documentation of an experiment conducted between the hours of 10 pm and 6 am one night in September, 2006. The result of frozen ice melting and dripping from an elastic pulley into eight paper cones over … Continue reading
