Title
Drawing Workshop Series: Space Capacity
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.
Recommended Citation
Kulper, Perry, "Drawing Workshop Series: Space Capacity" (2021). School of Architecture Lectures Series. 273.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_lectures/273
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