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Hello. I live in New York and work at The Living. I hold a graduate degree from Columbia University's GSAPP and an undergraduate architecture degree from the University of Texas at Austin. I have more than seven years of professional experience at noted architecture firms, including New York-based Rogers Marvel Architects and SOM. I also tackle freelance graphic and photography work with my partner in crime, the multi-talented Jackie Caradonio at Lion in Oil. In addition, I teach a course, Hacking the Urban Experience, at Columbia. View my CV here: CV(html). Thanks and have a nice day.

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20090124 architecture, school, utsoa | 1 Comment »Tags: architecture, school, studio, utsoa

car/truck shape study

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car/truck shape study model 14.5”x7”x5.5”
layers of bondo molded over a rectangular metal base

 

The perception of color is relative. The interaction of multiple colors creates a new relationship that alters the nature of the individual shades. The light quality in the project is important to the reading of the building shape, therefore, stable colors were chosen that are also dull, cool and light. The value of the red/blue colors were the same, creating an underlying unity while also influencing the perception of the forms reflecting in sunlight – and hidden in shadow. The colors reinforce the overall formal gesture while maintaining the indivual integrity of the facets. This was the third component of the Shape Studio, the first component can be viewed here.

 

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One Response to “car/truck shape study”

  1. john locke » Blog Archive » shape studio 2005 Says:
    March 4th, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    […] neigborhood, the studio work took on a messy quality that reinforced the sense of immediacy. See the second part of the studio here, shape and color. See the first part of the studio here, black and white shape […]

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