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AN EXQUISITE ARCHITECTURE
LOS ANGELES, CA | FALL 2021 | 701 STUDIO | CRITIC KAREL KLEIN | PARTNER LISA KNUST
SELECTED FOR PUBLICATION IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA WEITZMAN SCHOOL OF DESIGN’S ANUUAL PUBLICATION, “PRESSING MATTERS”
Along Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, a new art museum for LACMA positions itself in relation to the idea of the surrealist, “exquisite corpse,” in which a whole is formed through the arrangement of discreet parts. Initial AI imagery that guided these parts was influenced by walking Wilshire Boulevard.
Elements of AI trainings became prevalent in the site’s landscape and architectural intervention, most notably in the distinct qualities of a connective, sutured form that informs the project. The project works to blur the boundary between normative and the surreal, with recognizable architectural elements acting as a foil to the structural filigree, the derivation from the AI. These work in tangent to each other, reinforcing surrealist concepts of doubling and animation of the inanimate.
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AN EXQUISITE ARCHITECTURE
LOS ANGELES, CA | FALL 2021 | 701 STUDIO | CRITIC KAREL KLEIN | PARTNER LISA KNUST
SELECTED FOR PUBLICATION IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA WEITZMAN SCHOOL OF DESIGN’S ANUUAL PUBLICATION, “PRESSING MATTERS”
Along Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, a new art museum for LACMA positions itself in relation to the idea of the surrealist, “exquisite corpse,” in which a whole is formed through the arrangement of discreet parts. Initial AI imagery that guided these parts was influenced by walking Wilshire Boulevard.
Elements of AI trainings became prevalent in the site’s landscape and architectural intervention, most notably in the distinct qualities of a connective, sutured form that informs the project. The project works to blur the boundary between normative and the surreal, with recognizable architectural elements acting as a foil to the structural filigree, the derivation from the AI. These work in tangent to each other, reinforcing surrealist concepts of doubling and animation of the inanimate.
AN EXQUISITE ARCHITECTURE
LOS ANGELES, CA | FALL 2021 | 701 STUDIO | CRITIC KAREL KLEIN | PARTNER LISA KNUST
SELECTED FOR PUBLICATION IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA WEITZMAN SCHOOL OF DESIGN’S ANUUAL PUBLICATION, “PRESSING MATTERS”
Along Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, a new art museum for LACMA positions itself in relation to the idea of the surrealist, “exquisite corpse,” in which a whole is formed through the arrangement of discreet parts. Initial AI imagery that guided these parts was influenced by walking Wilshire Boulevard.
Elements of AI trainings became prevalent in the site’s landscape and architectural intervention, most notably in the distinct qualities of a connective, sutured form that informs the project. The project works to blur the boundary between normative and the surreal, with recognizable architectural elements acting as a foil to the structural filigree, the derivation from the AI. These work in tangent to each other, reinforcing surrealist concepts of doubling and animation of the inanimate.
