Body Techtonics

Architectural Jewelry Workshop

The intent of the week long workshop was 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 objects concern themselves with, structural legitimacies, material pallet and working characteristics, and processes of manufacture. The jewelry, like a building is spatially informed by and informs the landscape it occupies—they engage the landscape of the body. By using a design methodology that 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 took students from abstract conceptualization to pragmatic realization of poetic form. The above jewelry is from the week-long workshop held during Fall quarter, 2007.

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.