MAARD-6960-2: Independent Study

Spring 2020

Subject: Graduate Advanced Architecture Design

Type: Independent Study

Delivery Mode: In-Person

Level: Graduate

Course Dates: January 21, 2020 — May 08, 2020

Meetings: None listed

Instructor: Irene Cheng

Units: 3.0

Enrolled: 1/1 Closed

icheng@cca.edu

Irene C Cheng

Chair, Graduate Architecture Program

Associate Professor, Architecture Program

icheng@cca.edu

Description:

Kurt Pelzer: MAAD HTX Program

California College of the ArtsMasters of Advanced Architectural Design - History, Theory, and ExperimentsAdvanced Independent Study, Spring 2020Advisor: Professor Irene Cheng, Director of MAAD HTX Project Title: Sibyl Moholy-Nagy: Performance Knowledge, Architecture, and the Academic Lecture Following my research and work from fall 2019 focused on the history and theory of Sibyl Moholy Nagy’s involvement in architecture and environmental design discourse in the post-war period to 1970, the spring 2020 semester will continue this research and engage with the “theory and experiments” components of the MAAD HTX project. In the following weeks, I will investigate Sibyl’s “non-coercive” lecture performance of architectural and environmental knowledge as a critique of the then predominating art and architecture history courses based on Heinrich Wölfflin’s comparative method of two projected images. Additionally, I’ll investigate the format of the academic lecture within architectural and design discourse as a total media surround that signals architecture’s move beyond the object to considerations of the environment, movement, and the emergence of the unconscious mind. Through the research and assessment of lecture transcripts, first hand accounts of Sibyl’s lectures and speaking, audio recordings of Moholy-Nagy, course syllabi, and her own photographs to augment the canon of architectural history, this Independent Study will stage the re-enactment of Sibyl’s teaching and pedagogy in the format of an exhibition and performance to test, document, and reflect on the presentational methods and media within architecture and design discourse. Following the exhibition performance, I will assess the experimental grounds and limitations of this reconstructive history, and meditate on the media and materials “appropriate” to learn, teach, and construct architecture history and theory. ScheduleJanuary 27 Fall semester recap and overview for spring 2020 Contact estate and acquaintances of Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, and interlibrary loan requests of lecture transcripts Contact libraries and archives for materials Potential interviewees: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Robert Wilson, Margaret Salamone, Robert Stern, Denise Scott Brown, Peter Zumthor, Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Jean Kendall Glazer and Donlyn Lyndon. February 4 Build Repository of Materials and Media 1.0 Visit Smithsonian Archives of American Art at de YoungVisit University of California, Santa Cruz - Special Collections Book space for March 3 and April 14, and catalogue CCA equipment available for potentially use February 11 Build Repository of Materials and Media 2.0 Visit Smithsonian Archives of American Art at de YoungVisit University of California, Santa Cruz - Special Collections Ensemble precedents of curatorial strategies and methodologies February 18 Revision of paper on academic lecture performance February 25 Prepare, review, and rehearse exhibition and performance workshopwith invited guests Exhibition proposal(s) with 25% checklist including exhibition components, and draft floor plan March 3 Presentation of exhibition + performance proposal(s) with invited guests March 10 Exhibition checklist, exhibition design, and program schedule 50% March 17 Exhibition checklist, exhibition design, and program schedule 75% March 24 Spring Break March 31 Exhibition checklist, exhibition text, and exhibition design 90%. Begin production, printing, installation, and staging April 7 Final Exhibition Text, Object Labels, Floor Plan and program schedule due. Final Production, Printing, Installation, and Staging April 14 Exhibition and Performance April 21 Exhibition documentation and reflection - proposal and scopeoutline and methodologies April 28 Exhibition documentation and reflection - draft 50% Preparation for final review and presentation May 5 Exhibition documentation and reflection - draft 70% Final review and presentation May 12 Exhibition documentation and reflection - final document deliverable

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