2011F_Arch Design 2_Vetcher Section
ARCH-2220/2620 | Florencia Vetcher, Adjunct Professor
(re)Configuring Identity:
Expanding the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
Selected Student Work:
Georgeanna Foley
Andrew Van Meerbeke
The Hyde Collection; initiated by Ms Hyde in the 1940’s holds some of the world’s greatest works of art including pieces by Rembrandt, Picasso and Van Gogh. In the spirit of Ms. Hyde’s vision for the collection to create culture, delight and the opportunity for education, a key component of this semester was for each student to analyze a work of art from the collection.
Looking for “affects” within the artwork; the fundamental aspect that relates to the important feedback loop between subject and object, was the premise. Within this primordial relationship other thematics such as lighting, spatial composition, nature, and the human body emerged as influences.
Re-interpreting the art work from the Hyde collection in its technic, cultural and political context created the knowledge that came to assist the students in constructing their narrative of architectural possibilities for the future and identity of the Hyde collection. Those narratives manifested themselves it in drawings, models, animations and various visualizations that ultimately demonstrated how the “affect”, a mutually shaping process could become the basis of an architecture creative process and give the community a set of fresh architecture ideas for the expansion of the Hyde Collection at Glens Falls, NY.
Paul Chan
Georgeanna Foley
Tom Roland
