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BODY TECTONICS
Architectural Jewelry Workshop
The intent of this week long workshop is to posit that both theoretical and pragmatic concerns related to three-dimensional design can be researched at multiple scales using various object types. That through design investigation, form composition and full scale fabrication one can exercise design and craft skills relevant to all three-dimensional constructions. The specific object types that I use as vehicles for design inquiry and exercises are Body Tectonics (jewelry), Habitats for Fruit (table-top vessels) and Furniture Forms. While there are many formal compositional similarities of these objects to architectural constructions, there are equally many other elemental design considerations held in common. All of the aforementioned objects concern themselves with, structural legitimacies, material pallet and working characteristics, and processes of manufacture. Additionally, while reflecting on the objects of jewelry, vessel and furniture, each like a building is spatially informed by and informs the landscape it occupies. The object types listed respectively engage the landscape of the body, the table-top, the room and lastly the earth. The workshop due to its limited time frame will deal exclusively with the design, fabrication, discussion and presentation of four Body Tectonic pieces. While I enjoy and am interested in the final constructs, I have a larger pedagogical agenda which will become apparent through out the workshop. By using a design methodology which emphasizes the discreet tectonic abstractions of line, plane and mass, one simultaneously both restricts and focuses the design process while opening up its application to many scales and types of objects. The workshop through rigorous design research and hands on fabrication will take students from abstract conceptualization to pragmatic realization of poetic form.
Teacher: Professor Len Wujcik
Professor Wujcik is a faculty member at the Department of Architecture, College of Design University of Kentucky. Len has taught Architecture Studio/Furniture Design/Construction for over two decades and his students and himself have received national and international recognition through awards and the exhibition of their work. (complete CV on file with the Department Head).
Time & Location: Every evening from 6:30pm – 9:00pm in the CAED Shop, Monday October 1st through Friday, October 5th, 2007. Workshop will include faculty presentations, students’ design and construction of Body Tectonics, and faculty assistance for any help in the students’ Vellum furniture submittal.
Units: Students attending the workshop will receive one (1) unit which will be awarded upon successful completion of the workshop.
Fees: None
Sign-Up: The Workshop is Full
Sponsored by: Architecture Department, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo