Christine Adame, Nicholas Angelo, Drew Brooks, Salvador Calderon, William Hermann, Nicholas Kinnaird, Valerie Lyall, Luu Mac, Megan Marvin, Brittany Milas, Chantel Pham, Lauren Richter, , Matthew Saner, Megha Vaidya, & Kim Villavicencio / B.Arch. Flow / Danilo Udovicki-Selb & Larry Doll
Estrangement Project Our theory-based studio began with a quote from the Formalist Viktor Sklovskij, “A new form creates a new content.” Paraphrasing his claim about art, we tested the position that architecture is not an object, not a material, but a relationship of materials tectonically assembled in space. Our studio created 28 investigations on the ‘poetics of architecture’ (tectonics, materials, light, space, jazz music as program, etc.). The studio then entered the process of defamiliarizing Sutton Hall’s third floor with a studio exhibition of our work. This process of defamiliarization leads ultimately to both the reinvention of the given space and the heightening of our awareness of it. The intention behind the design of the installation in the western stairwell was to provoke the daily users of the space into a less banal experience as they walk up and down a stair.