this week i've been zooming out and attempting to draw the concept of the enormous without relying on program or site to contrast it.
first attempt: dashes



bigger version here (the printed version is 40x32)

drawing+model (on the wall) detail of the drawing detail of the drawing detail of the drawing and a screenshot of the film that was playing View full entry

drawing plan view and composite drawing of the relationship of program elements to the highway (in blue) View full entry

drawing juxtapositions of five generic conditions of program that have been informed by the logic of the enormous. using vectors (shown in blue) to track movement through each spatial condition, patterns of density begin to arise.theorizing how program can be connected to a network. reading foa... View full entry

site drawing of the I-15 between las vegas and los angeles. (lighter orange is landscape, blue is the paths of vehicles, and red-orange is the hand motion to turn on and off a turn signal) View full entry

poster for the public presentations all one hundred thesis students all made identically-sized books printed through lulu View full entry

Open publication - Free publishing - More thesis (thesis seminar final result) View full entry

This is another little bit of my thesis project. The first part is here. One mapping of the view out the car windshield along a vector. known knowns Projects designed for transient users require a method of representation that transcends static depictions of space, occupation, and circulation... View full entry

In an attempt to document my thesis project over the course of the next seven months, I'll be posting my progress. First up is my thoughts on site in relation to infrastructural networks. The images are snippets from a series of maps that are used as locative visual media for the work. known... View full entry

design computing/paramod/wednesday nights with frank gehry The final review for my Digital Project seminar was a few weeks back (nicely offset from other classes). After spending the first portion of the class working through tutorials, the second half was devoted to individual projects that, for... View full entry

This week is the student show at TCAUP, so the crit spaces have been taken over by projects from last semester. The top few students from each studio get the chance to exhibit their studio work. CMYK hallway before: CMYK hallway during installation (my studio is on the right): CMYK hallway after... View full entry

Our task for theory this week was to create a visual polemic based on an assigned critical text. Earlier in the semester we worked in groups to analyze and present the text, but now we're on our own to develop a list of terms and a visual means of defining them. My text, Nic Clear's AD issue... View full entry

Atlas of Novel Tectonics for Design Computing (Digital Project)Society of the Spectacle and Points+Lines for StudioCadillac Desert for American SpaceTheoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies and Architectures of the Near Future for Theory View full entry

Lecture: Mark Dorrian "Clouds of Architecture" An interesting take on the use of clouds in architecture, Mark Dorrian worked through several conceptions of them including buildings that take on cloud-like properties through transparency, projects like Diller Scofidio's "Blur" which create a cloud... View full entry