Possible Mediums Kelly Bair, Kristy Balliet, Adam Fure, Kyle Miller The Possible Mediums book will present a diverse collection of texts, drawings, and images from invited contributors. Five chapters – Histories, Figures, Objects, Parts, and Projections – group together contributors with related interests and frame the book’s content in relation to contemporary topics of interest. This structure reflects an approach to understanding and organizing contemporary architectural discourse, which is approached with neither cynicism nor divisiveness. Instead, architecture’s potential is framed as simply and optimistically “possible,” while providing secondary categories that allow for more nuanced discourses to emerge. This book is not a systematic theory, not a manifesto, not a banal survey. It is a teeming caldron of potential, containing the seeds of architectures and knowledge to come.
“Not only does the exhibition showcase inventive design research, it also plays host to student workshops, discussions and catered events. Providing a survey of the state of the art on the American scene, the organizers hope to elicit frank conversations concerning nascent speculative discourses. By this measure Possible Mediums is a rousing success.”-Architecture Review POSSIBLE MEDIUMS presents the work of a diverse group of contemporary architects working through speculative design mediums. KELLY BAIR, KRISTY BALLIET, ADAM FURE, KYLE MILLER
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ARTIFACTS are man-made objects that are found and reused in the composition of bespoke constructions.
BODIES are topologically continuous forms with features that resemble human and/or animal body parts.
FURNITURE refers to objects designed specifically for eating, sitting, sleeping, storage and display.
GRAPHICS are illustrations that call attention to the architectural elements upon which they are applied.
GRIDS are underlying formal structures that allow for the interrelation of centers, edges, intersections, and corners through the addition and transformation of columns, frames, and walls.
LINES are segments that span between two points and organize form, space, structure, and movement.
NARRATIVE relies on language and sequence to tell graphic stories of real and fictional architecture using animation, two-dimensional illustrations, and three-dimensional props.
PATTERN refers to a repetitive arrangement of lines in a two-dimensional plane with an inherent capacity to produce depth.
PLANS are two-dimensional compositions of walls, windows and doors that depict the spatial arrangements of rooms and passageways within a building.
PLASTIC is a synthetic material used in non-standard fabrication to produce heterogeneous tactile and visual qualities.
Kelly Bair, Kristy Balliet, Adam Fure, Kyle Miller (eds.) 7 x 9 in. / 17 x 23 cm. Soft Cover / 200 pages ISBN English 978-1-940291-96-3
PRIMITIVES are simple geometric shapes mutated or combined with others into unusual wholes with uncharacteristic parts.
PROFILES are closed, two-dimensional lines arranged in three-dimensional space, which develop into planar surfaces, thick wireframes, extruded solids, and curved surfaces.
PUZZLES use flanges and seams to balance the spatial and geometric complexity of interlocking architectural components.
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