Not Not Architecture and the Double Negative Inside and Out?

The studio studies three territories within the expanding the field of architecture  Architecture, Not Architecture, and Not Not Architecture. It builds cyclically on the first seven studios at Columbia. This eighth studio examines Not Not Architecture and the Double Negative through the production a series of public buildings operating between the public house and the private tower (the hut and the tabernacle) every two weeks within a series of double void sites under the Alberti dictum that "the house is a city, and the city is a house." Sites are seen as physical, conceptual, a perceptual found double void places like donut trouv?s  natural voids within voids, holes within holes, nothing within nothing, wasteland in wasteland in a post Utopian world society here and far away. In this Post 9/11, post-apocalyptic time, the course begins with a weekend project within the double void of New York Bay as a (pierced) world navel by making a mythic Noah's Ark  biblical fiction (Gibson) versus cinema verite (Moore). Then the studio study sites progress from the bay (New York Harbor) to the island (Governor's Island) to the pit (World Trade Center) to a void (Twin Towers Slot) to the vacuum (Madison Square Garden) to the reservoir (Central Park) and to a volume (Anywhere)  all places and forms of urban double negativity. Because architecture sustains assignment, you are in charge of the job - Assignment within Assignment - from the beginning the project, production, and projection for each building is determined by you. The evolving course, sub-themes, and methods of work are driven by your ongoing, constant defining demi-urge to generate a Manhattan Catalogue of archetypes and prototypes between memory and imagination. The goal is to produce a cogent oeuvre a building body of work, both individually and collectively. Individual work forms a course of questioning and answering ideas and feelings about Architecture, Not Architecture, and Not Not Architecture through construction. The group studio work generates a hard, fast research and design industry "Building Tank" - based on study via productivist construction making an ancient and future city through drawing, modeling, reading, and building by hand and machine into a compact, dynamic Gestalt as a multiple, omni-directional collapsed physical presence  Urbanism Now among an ongoing three dimensional and four dimensional projective building works: a Sardine Can crossed with Pandora's Box. The studio makes a series of public buildings within the collective urban fabric shown weekly in Monday Pin-ups. We show buildings on the big screen in Fast Futurist Films weekly in dark silence on Fridays. A polemical and didactic Not Not Architecture Book 3 is made during the term on the Double Zero City. It is recommended to take Mark C. Taylor's seminar on "Nothingness, Absence, and Loss." We will work in exchange overlap ping-pong with Gordon Kipping's studio called "Untitled." Andrew MacNair, September 1, 2004


Wendy Cooper
Megan Feenstra Wall
Jorge Fontan
Eda Ghanem
Chyanne Hussar
Stella Lee
Kenneth Neff
Jorge Salgado
Lauren Stern
Tae Woo
Benjamin Work
Kaiyu Zhow