The Sum of Its Parts - Architecture Office Exhibition
Monday, March 6, 2023
12:00 am - 12:00 am
For nearly 70 years villagers of New Glarus, Wisconsin have been transforming their village to perpetuate the architectural charm of their country of origin. Initially swissified by businessmen and then implemented as part of the building code as Article II: Swiss Architectural theme, New Glarus applies the well-known architectural elements of the Swiss chalet.
The Sum of its Parts brings together three collections of work from an undergraduate research studio inspired by the Swiss theme code of New Glarus. The exhibition features fourteen study models and fourteen corner assembly models built using found model kit parts of alpine buildings, as well as seven drawings of chalet elements and fourteen drawings of their respective arrangements. By representing the Swiss chalet through different means the work shows that learning from New Glarus goes beyond Swiss or American architecture; the Sum of its Parts explores a design methodology for the multiple and evolving forms of a significant building type.
Image shown: Student project by Ashel Jaimon and Luis Martinez
About
Architecture
Office:
Architecture
Office
is
a
Swiss-American
practice
led
by
Nicole
McIntosh
and
Jonathan
Louie.
Their
recent
work
has
been
exhibited
at
the
Yale
Architecture
Gallery,
the
Kunsthaus
Glarus
and
the
2021
Seoul
Biennial
of
Architecture
and
Urbanism.
Their
contributions
to
design
and
research
have
been
recognized
by
the
Architectural
League
of
New
York
with
the
Young
Architect’s
Prize
(2017),
ACSA
Faculty
Design
Award
(2020),
and
Swiss
Federal
Office
of
Culture
with
the
Swiss
Art
Awards
(2022).
- Location
- Mashburn Gallery, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design