Project Description
This research will support an ongoing book and exhibition project to be completed in 2027 and presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale documenting and analyzing architectural design/discourse in the 1990s centered on the magazine: Architecture New York (ANY). This work is being done in collaboration with colleagues at ETH Zurich, Ohio State University, and Ball State University and is an advanced stage; with initial publication agreement and exhibition approval in place. It will involve the development of draft textual summaries and preliminary information graphics for the publication and exhibition. The research methodology will involve identifying, compiling, and performing textual/topic analysis of writings and design project linked to the articles identified for republication in the final book. Methods will also include iterative development of information graphics based on graphic, timeline, and textual analysis of architectural projects documented in or surrounding the ANY magazine publication and its participants.
Tasks and Responsibilites
Students will read articles selected from the publication run of ANY magazine. After building familiarity with the underlying content, they will be guided in compiling a collection of related texts on which they will perform textual and semantic analysis of common themes and recurring concepts that will then be reverse traced to identify related architectural projects. Students will further work with faculty using already-compiled information to iterate on representations of the identified concepts and projects in timeline, network diagrams, video, and other graphic formats that will be used to develop final book/exhibition content. Students will also be responsible for developing short textual descriptions/analyses of these graphics.
Desired Qualifications
None listed.