VS I

This course was focused on the study and development of the spline and using different techniques to convert them to solid volumes with their own characteristics. In this exploration of the relationship between spline and surface we came up with a range of different objects that we later embedded with texture that came from the manipulating of pixels of images of does models.

VS II

This course is in response to the recent US political elections. According to critics, the use of graphic design and imagery during the 2016 campaign and its ability to misrepresent information and truth through fake news, image making and exaggerations contributed to the spread of mass communication of information that over time changed the definition of those subjects correctness. During the post-2008 US election, Alejandro Zaero Polo wrote an essay in Log 17 titled, The Politics of the Envelope. This course is a prequel to similar notions of the building envelope and its role as a political tool for architectural representation. More specifically, the class has focused on further developing “spherical envelopes” as a surface problem for the 21st century. Investigating an effective link between graphics and architectural massing through the making of fabricated objects, distorted fields, and misleading surfaces, the class has focused on fakery and the artificial as a tool to create alternative narratives between the perception of exterior objects and interior volumes.