About 20 minute before registration closed on Friday, I took a slightly untraditional route and dropped the required Theory I for an elective that I don’t actually need, Lars’ Building Workshop. I linked to his webpage earlier. The elective page reads:
Lars Spuybroek has pioneered research into the relationship between architecture and the computer in widely published projects . . . The previous semester operated on a systematics of variation based on textile techniques (like braiding, knitting, macremee, or crochet) that resulted in five different housing skins for each student. The premise of this studio is that such variation can only be produced through state-of-the-art manufacturing techniques, like 3-axis CNC-milling. We will fully concentrate on using digital tools to fabricate those models now at the AWPL.
My job is to be the research assistant with those students.
Some of the projects last year from the AWPL:
