Studio Prize: Animate Archi-Tectonics: Structural Configurations Between Lines, Planes, and Volumes

This first-year undergraduate studio at the Cooper Union explored the principles of form and space by starting with Paul Klee's idea that "a drawing is taking a line for a walk."

Investigation | Mersiha Veledar, an assistant professor at the Cooper Union, doesn’t believe in easing her first-year students into the school’s rigorous undergraduate program—and it shows in the way she designed her studio, Animate Archi-Tectonics, which throws them headfirst into a deep exploration of how lines, planes, and volumes come together to create architectural forms.

The studio is split into three phases, beginning with an examination of the ways lines intersect. From those drawings, students investigate how the forms created by those intersections function at different scales and dimensions; they then build models, which they test in terms of scale and habitation—inserting doors and stairs, for example.

“In my book the most exciting thing about this studio is showing students how abstractions can be made real,” Veledar says.

Hello friends, in case some of you might be able to come, I'll be MODERATING the 'DOMUS/LOCUS (2006)' Studio I taught during my many years as faculty at the fourth year Architecture of the City Studios at The Cooper Union with Diane Lewis & the remaining incredibly dedicated fourth year colleagues, this Friday (12:30-1:30PM). Panel includes MICHAEL WEBB, MERRILL ELAM, JONATHAN KIRSCHENFELD, FRED BIEHLE and the super talented alumni of this studio scheduled to take place this Friday at the New Museum.

Additionally, I'll be a panelist at the MoMA the following day moderated by my dear colleague Daniel Sherer for 'CITIES OF CATASTROPHE: FROM ATLANTIS TO NEW ORLEANS (2007)' Studio & reading a passage from the essay I wrote for the OPEN CITY:EXISTENTIAL URBANITY publication titled "HEALING THE CITY" describing Mostar while witnessing (as well surviving) genocide...now over 20 years after the act.

This panel will also include Dean NADER TEHRANI, MACK SCOGIN, P. SCOTT COHEN and more incredible alumni of the studio I very much look forward to seeing again!

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Studio Prize: Animate Archi-Tectonics: Structural Configurations Between Lines, Planes, and Volumes

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Studio Prize: Animate Archi-Tectonics: Structural Configurations Between Lines, Planes, and Volumes

This first-year undergraduate studio at the Cooper Union explored the principles of form and space by starting with Paul Klee's idea that "a drawing is taking a line for a walk."

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