Please join us at the Black's Heritage Farm for the exhibition of Fallow: Reconstructed Space.

Fallow has been a semester long effort by students to investigate production of a support system for the re-occupation of a dormant seed-drying chamber located south of Ames, Iowa. Temporary research assemblies within the chamber develop an experiential space through an ethno-specific logic. The investigation crafts a deeper understanding of fundamental human conditions pertaining to identity, farm labor, and the construction of experiential space.

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This semester, Iowa State's B.Arch. and M.Arch. programs were reviewed for NAAB accreditation. For a few months, the College of Design was packed with models, drawings, and presentation boards. Second year projects emphasized exploration through drawing. Machines from the second years...

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