Tag: Architecture

Looking Back

I find a kind of freedom in my art that helps me escape pain. As I look back on a project I did at Pratt, I realize that I was doing the same thing with my architecture. The curvature in my spine in my twenties caused intermittent episodes of pain. The conception of this house, about the desire to escape gravity, TO FLY, TO BE FREE, but not being able to, always tethered to earth, was a metaphor for the human condition. But perhaps subliminally, it was a metaphor for my deformed spine, wishing I could escape it.

I was honored when this project was selected to be in the book published by Rizzoli FORM; BEING; ABSENCE, Pratt Journal of Architecture, 1987

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Site Plan & Floor Plans

Axonometric, Section & Elevation

Model

From the Book “Form; Being; Absence – Pratt Journal of Architecture
Published by Rizzoli 1987

Front Cover of “Form; Being; Absence – Pratt Journal of Architecture
Published by Rizzoli 1987