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Exercise Prompts. Published by ar + d, 2023. Thank you @lostritto for this incredible project. #TransformationMatrix #ArchitecturalPlay #DigitalFormMaking #3DExperimentation #ArchitecturalExercises #DesignAlgorithms #ChopDropRepeat #SimulationArt

Some notes from the article: “However, revolting against the architect father, in architecture, with architecture, creates a very hermetic and claustrophobic sphere of engagement that instead of destroying the system, further reinforces it by repairing or replacing the stale and no-longer acceptable parts.” “(Theaster gates - Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America) They use their bodies to physically move imminent artifacts in the church and sounds to ephemerally activate—arguably even transcend—the complex history of the church, which Gates argues is typical in south side Chicago. The installation offers a fascinating example for work that zeroes in on the relationship between politics and architecture. It is even more relevant for our current moment because our material and immaterial states of duress are here. It is impossible to imagine an architectural space where the politics of violence and aggression are not considered.” Published by ar + d, 2023. Thank you @lostritto for the insightful edits and of course for having me be a part of this book.

Thank you for the invitation VIncent Hui, Ryan Scavnicky and Tatiana Estrina. Published by Routeldge, 2025. #InteriorDesign #ArchitectureandVideogames #tmu #Drawings #Renderings #Models #VirtualReality #HistoricReproduction #CulturalArtifacts #MaterialRepresentation

Thank you for the invitation Gabe Esquivel. In great company as always. Published by Routledge, 2023. “In collectively recovering from the highjacking of the architectural surface by the insurgence of high capitalism, the creative potential in controlled models of violence and disruption introduces productive apparatuses in an architecture that is in need of shakeup.” Email or dm for PDF. #InteriorDesign #deepvista #drawings #renderings #models #ArchitectureTheory #CriticalArchitecture #ArchitecturalDisruption #DesignAsResistance #PostCapitalistDesign

Some drawing experiments in Drawing Codes, a massive project by Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus. In great company. Thank you to all involved and thank you Ila Berman for your eyes on the work. Drawing codes : experimental protocols of architectural representation Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus. AR+D Publishing, 2023 #drawing #representation #architecture #architecturedrawing #architecturewriting #digitalmedia #digitalthinking #digitalphysics #miraclesarchitecture

Aleatory was a temporary indoor installation open to the TMU community and the general public. The project explored the interaction between architectural forms (3D geometric studies) and flat, digitally-generated graphics. It examined the visual effects of flatbed-printed graphics on rigid panels, considering how such surfaces might be deployed in architectural cladding. In this way, the installation served as a proto-architectural study for potential full-scale applications. The project reflected a creative and pedagogical approach that treated graphic conditions (visual), animation logics (formal), and digital-ecological references (cultural) as integral to architectural design—elements often treated as peripheral. It positioned geometric form, digital process, and material expressivity as analogous visual languages in dialogue. Aleatory aimed to push visual studies forward by layering digitally-generated images—both real and fictitious—with structural fragments and studies of volumetric transformation. Photography by Kurtis Chen. SID Gallery Exhibition, April 2024. #AleatoryInstallation #DigitalMateriality #VisualStudiesInArchitecture #FlatbedPrinting #GeometricTransformation #ArchitecturalCladding #DigitalEcologies #VolumetricStudies

Aleatory was a temporary indoor installation open to the TMU community and the general public. The project explored the interaction between architectural forms (3D geometric studies) and flat, digitally-generated graphics. It examined the visual effects of flatbed-printed graphics on rigid panels, considering how such surfaces might be deployed in architectural cladding. In this way, the installation served as a proto-architectural study for potential full-scale applications. The project reflected a creative and pedagogical approach that treated graphic conditions (visual), animation logics (formal), and digital-ecological references (cultural) as integral to architectural design—elements often treated as peripheral. It positioned geometric form, digital process, and material expressivity as analogous visual languages in dialogue. Aleatory aimed to push visual studies forward by layering digitally-generated images—both real and fictitious—with structural fragments and studies of volumetric transformation. Photography by Kurtis Chen. SID Gallery Exhibition, April 2024. #AleatoryInstallation #DigitalMateriality #VisualStudiesInArchitecture #FlatbedPrinting #GeometricTransformation #ArchitecturalCladding #DigitalEcologies #VolumetricStudies

A temporary indoor installation open to the TMU community and the general public. The project explored the interaction between architectural forms (3D geometric studies) and flat, digitally-generated graphics. It examined the visual effects of flatbed-printed graphics on rigid panels, considering how such surfaces might be deployed in architectural cladding. The project reflected a creative and pedagogical approach that treated graphic conditions (visual), animation logics (formal), and digital-ecological references (cultural) as integral to architectural design—elements often treated as peripheral. It positioned geometric form, digital process, and material expressivity as analogous visual languages in dialogue. Aleatory aimed to push visual studies forward by layering digitally-generated images—both real and fictitious—with structural fragments and studies of volumetric transformation. Supported by Digital Technology Lab Seed grant. Fabricated with @designtechnologylab and @sid_tmu_workshop Photography by Kurtis Chen. SID Gallery Exhibition, April 2024. sidgallery.ca #AleatoryInstallation #DigitalMateriality #VisualStudiesInArchitecture #FlatbedPrinting #GeometricTransformation #ArchitecturalCladding #DigitalEcologies #VolumetricStudies

Exhausted Strength, 1854, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller Belvedere Museum, Vienna

A dear friend sent this to me a while ago while I was working on guest editing AD Magazine. I return to it every now and then. Happy New Year. 🎈🎈🎈

We are pleased to be included in this year's @acadiaorg double blind peer-review Projects Catalog "Hybrids & Haecceities" hosted by the Weitzman School of Design @weitzman_arch . Our project UNDERSTOREY is a pavilion designed and constructed for @exhibitcolumbus . The pavilion was fabricated during a fellowship at the @Autodesk Technology Center in Boston. Thank you to all of the brilliant staff @autodesk and our sponsors @mitarchitecture @knowltonosu @kalwalldaylighting @spectrumlightingusa #parabeam3DGlassFabrics, our student team members Megan Pettner, Zach Schumacher, Taylor Boes, and Becca Schalip, and a special thanks to Zach Tenaglia the Boston Technology Center.

Thank you for invitation @nyreviewofarchitecture and for the insightful edits Samuel. From NYRA: @nyreviewofarchitecture Issue #30 is here! Subscribe and we will mail you a copy. "To talk about utopia today is to invite scorn, doubt, or, most likely, pity. Spurned as the stuff of juvenilia, utopia seems to have no place in serious discourse. Even architecture, a discipline that once happily abided utopian dreaming, now anathematizes it. The field of architecture is suffused with magical thinking...." With contributions by Joy Knoblauch, Angie Door, Jonah Coe-Scharff, Viola Ago, Phillip Denny, Alana Pockros, Ian Volner, Harris Chowdry, Kevin Rogan and an interview with Sarah Jaffe. Cover courtesy DESIGN EARTH (@_designearth ), prints courtesy Zoe Zenghelis, Galo Canizares (@itsgalo ), and Claude Parent, spots throughout by @props.supply (Statue of liberty as a print only, actual statue not included.)