CAROLINE COLLECTIVE, HOUSTON TEXAS
PENDING OPENING DATE: 02/11 (concurrent digital exhibition launch on www.tex-fab.net)
Production and design are often two distinct processes in architecture, since the advent of the formalized design document. Wherein the ideation and production of drawings occur months and sometimes years before anything is realized physically. We are entering a phase of design exploration that is no longer a two-step process, it occurs more seamlessly within a feedback loop between what is drawn, computed, and what is built, manufactured. This blending of processes is an opportunity for the architect/designer to better manipulate an idea into a physical manifestation. We see this as the nexus for a new era in ideation. As such this exhibition will cover topics of design to production and the collapse of traditional methodologies.
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Partial Architectures
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ARLINGTON SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
OPENING: Tuesday, 02/05/10
While the capacity to move across various 2D and 3D digital design platforms suggests a new type of agility for architects and designers, this capability is still largely in an early state of gestation. To some extent the role of these emerging methodologies are most profoundly explored at scales and in modalities not directly confronted by full architectural programs or design requirements. Rather, the partial or the abbreviated become micro-excursions into the possibilities of what these tools and technologies might foreshadow. The incomplete, in this regard, provides a critical stage in developing the evolution of digital design. By focusing on more detailed scales of development and fabrication it is possible to test the physicality of this type of architecture in more rigorous terms. To some extent, the process leading to authoring certain qualitative effects becomes the most tangible result of the partial architecture. Themes of light, surface, materiality, and tactility are all fleshed out to produce a haptic digital architecture.
CAROLINE COLLECTIVE, HOUSTON TEXAS
PENDING OPENING DATE: 02/11 (concurrent digital exhibition launch on www.tex-fab.net)
Production and design are often two distinct processes in architecture, since the advent of the formalized design document. Wherein the ideation and production of drawings occur months and sometimes years before anything is realized physically. We are entering a phase of design exploration that is no longer a two-step process, it occurs more seamlessly within a feedback loop between what is drawn, computed, and what is built, manufactured. This blending of processes is an opportunity for the architect/designer to better manipulate an idea into a physical manifestation. We see this as the nexus for a new era in ideation. As such this exhibition will cover topics of design to production and the collapse of traditional methodologies.
Partial Architectures
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ARLINGTON SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
OPENING: Tuesday, 02/05/10
While the capacity to move across various 2D and 3D digital design platforms suggests a new type of agility for architects and designers, this capability is still largely in an early state of gestation. To some extent the role of these emerging methodologies are most profoundly explored at scales and in modalities not directly confronted by full architectural programs or design requirements. Rather, the partial or the abbreviated become micro-excursions into the possibilities of what these tools and technologies might foreshadow. The incomplete, in this regard, provides a critical stage in developing the evolution of digital design. By focusing on more detailed scales of development and fabrication it is possible to test the physicality of this type of architecture in more rigorous terms. To some extent, the process leading to authoring certain qualitative effects becomes the most tangible result of the partial architecture. Themes of light, surface, materiality, and tactility are all fleshed out to produce a haptic digital architecture.