2012F_Design Studio_Titus Section
ARCH-2200 | Anthony Titus, Assistant Professor
Design Studio
Selected Student Work:
Kevin Conlin
Andrew Kim
Erik Weaver
In two of her seminal essays entitled “Grids” and “Notes on the Index 2,” historian and critic Rosalind E. Krauss articulates the idea of the indexical capacity of the photograph and the conceptual dimension of a grid. According to Krauss, photographs are indices or traces of the impact of time and matter; while a grid may serve as a means of human measure and organization. These two conditions of the grid and the photograph serve as this studio’s point of departure. Each student selects a type of grid and a photograph that captures and describes a precise set of dynamic processes and physical transformations of the surface of Mars.
The categorical references are as follows: aeolian processes, fluvial processes, geological contact/stratigraphy, impact processes, landscape evolution, hydro-thermal processes, sedimentary and layering processes, and tectonic processes. The understanding and exploration of the precise nature of these geological processes is a necessary component in developing the architectonic languages that emerge over the duration of the semester. Each student engages in an ongoing series of/ drawings, constructs, photographs and texts, with the goal of forming new ideas of society on Mars.
Kevin Conlin
Andrew Kim
August Rulewich
Erik Weaver
