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The Architecture Program at Georgia Tech offers pre-professional, professional,
and post-professional education to approximately 400 students in Atlanta,
Georgia. It is distinguished by its location in both one of the top
technologically-oriented research universities in the U.S. and in the
center of the country’s fastest growing metropolitan region. The Program
makes particular use of the city and sprawl of Atlanta as a laboratory
for investigating the challenges and opportunities associated with contemporary
architectural and urban development. Studios investigating alternative
approaches to generic building and place-making practices accompany
research on development patterns and demographics in the contemporary
city. Together, they manifest the Program’s commitment to effective
design of the everyday landscape and retrofitting suburban conditions.
This urban agenda is augmented by the Program’s equally strong focus
on bridging between physical and digital environments. Ample technological
resources throughout the Institute support instruction and research
into digital media and simulation, GIS mapping, space syntax, advanced
applications of CNC tools, and their interaction with more traditional
construction techniques, modes of representation, and visual arts. The
videos exhibited here from Professor Wanda Dye’s course on “Filmic Constructions
of Space” combine both agendas in their attention to everyday environments
viewed through digital media, and in that dialogue suggest the power
of observation to lead to transformation. Ellen Dunham-Jones, Director of the Architecture Program |
 Installation at the Stazione Leopolda, Florence (photo by: Omar Cotza) |
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Constructions of Space Instructor: Wanda Dye |
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Night Drive by Joshua Conrad. Filmic Constructions of Space "is ongoing research and experimentation in pedagogy and practice with video and video editing software as an analytical and conceptual tool; a tool that observes and explores vector spaces and spatial practices in architecture and urbanism. As our nomadic lives continue to rely on temporal spaces and itineraries, rather than static places, how do we begin to tap into these complex and multiple relationships?"1 Video and video editing software have tremendous potential and possibilities of "representation as articulation," as Agrest states; precisely through capturing and creating alternative perspectives outside more static and conventional modes of representation. Today, especially in America, we appropriate and apprehend architecture through accelerated perceptions and practices, through different appropriations, actions, times, movements, speeds, and sounds. The contemporary city’s spaces grow and are experienced through temporal intersections of vectors, such as highways, airports, terminals, sidewalks; as well as itinerary based spatial practices, such as shopping, walking, driving, working, playing etc.. How are architecture and urbanism experienced in these conditions? How does space operate critically within these conditions? Can time based media such as video enable one to articulately represent and rethink these vectors spaces and spatial practices perhaps otherwise overlooked?" (Wanda Dye, "Video as Mode of Complexity and Multiplicity," SPEED:SPACE ACSA Proceedings, 2002.) Students: Joseph Lamb, Joshua Conrad, Laura Sissoko. |
Wanda Dye is an Assistant Professor in Architecture at Georgia Tech. She received her Bachelor of Architecture from Auburn University and her Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University. She received design awards while at both institutions. Video was introduced to her as a conceptual and analytical design tool while studying under Diana Agrest at Columbia. While in New York, Dye worked in the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects. In 1999 she moved to Atlanta after being offered a teaching position at Georgia Tech. Presently she teaches graduate and undergraduate design studios and two seminars titled: "Filmic Constructions of Space" and "Mass Customization and Architecture." She has taught "Filmic Constructions of Space" for the past four years at Georgia Tech. The class is offered to graduates and undergraduates within the school of Architecture. | |||||
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