Drawing Workshop Series: Space Capacity

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Perry Kulper

Document Type

Video

Date

Fall 10-15-2021

Keywords

Drawing workshop

Language

English

Disciplines

Architecture

Description/Abstract

Perry Kulper Architect and Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan SURFACE CAPACITY ‘Surface Capacity’ unpacks the construction of a spatial and pedagogical practice through the lens of architectural representation, by sampling various kinds of produced surfaces—analog, digital and composites. Comprised of influences, hunches, flat out shots in the dark and outcomes, ‘Surface Capacity’ builds a relational calculus that points to developing spatial, representational, cultural and disciplinary participation. Key partners-in-crime for the work tickled in the talk include curiosity cabinets, Robert Venturi’s book, ‘Complexity and Contradiction’, Wallace Stevens’ seminal poem ’Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’, Jorge Luis Borges’ fictional taxonomy, ‘Celestial Emporium of Celestial Knowledge’, Baroque architecture, Matthew Barney’s ‘Drawing Restraints’, surrealist techniques, and interests in contingency and indeterminacy. Language prompts, analogous thinking, the ‘naming problem’, tailored visualizations, and inventive programmatic thinking populate the margins. ‘Surface Capacity’ gets under the metaphorical hood of an approximate practice, constructed by an amateur, that leverages various forms of visualization towards spatial speculations that aspire to enlarge what might be possible in the cultural imaginary.

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