This project is part of an ongoing curriculum reboot program offered to first year undergraduate program at UNC Charlotte that is in its third year. The foundational studio is organized around two parallel tracks: video and drawing, that promote the value of analytical abstraction.
Hierarchy is defined in this studio, contrary to its dictionary definition, as a system of relationships. Hierarchy cannot be given. It always-already exists because everything always-already has inherent relationships to other things. Instead of given, hierarchy is managed. To manage a hierarchy is to design!
Temporality is as mysterious to architects as it is to philosophers, who have struggled with the mysterious relationship between space and time for millennia. This studio is an introduction to that unsolvable debate and, on a more practical level, to how architects may analyze the temporal dimension critically and creatively.
Architecture is typically understood as a spatial hierarchy, meaning an assembly of physical materials that encloses and defines space; however, it is also a lived condition imbued with activity, culture, difference, and contingency. Buildings are never neutral containers that exist within a vacuum. Analytical abstraction is the lens through which students scrutinize hierarchy and temporality.
Hoa Nguyen | Class of 2022
Leah West | Class of 2023
Greyson Reeder | Class of 2023
Diego Milner | Class of 2023
Nick Anastasi | Class of 2023
Barah Musa | Class of 2023
