Within or Without (Louis i. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship)
Synopsis "Within or Without (Louis i. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship)"
Scott Ruffs studio, Gullah/Geechee Institute, investigated architectures role as a cultural signifier in the African-American GullahGeechee community off the South Carolina coast. It challenged students to translate cultural ideas into tectonic and spatial strategies for a monument, museum, and memorial that serves as a gateway to the GullahGeechee corridor, incorporating public interpretive and historical programs.In Florencia Pita and Jackilin Blooms studio, Easy Office, students experimented with ways of generating new spatial, formal, material, and narrative ideas through the processes of collecting, collaging, and casting everyday objects. The studio considered notions of the creative office and the workplace based on the unexpected space, form, and materiality that emerged from these processes.Students in Omar Gandhis studio, Where the Wild Things Are designed a campus of creatures for Rabbit Snare Gorge on the north coast of Cape Breton Island. They focused on a series of interventions that used vernacular approaches to produce specific functions, develop a process or ideology, and frame sensory experience. The students explored how Nova Scotias regional architecture takes advantage of phenomenological opportunities available on the site and inspires new responses to climate and geography.
