By: Melody Chen & Riling Chen When the Bauhaus opened in 1919, it was a stark shift from the traditional form of teaching the arts. They believed that artists should return to craft and instead of the typical teacher and pupil dynamic, the school was filled with masters, journeymen and apprentices. Their philosophy was simple, students should be able to live in and build the forms that symbolize their environment. At the core of the...
While working through her masters thesis, recent graduate Liyang Zhang picked up pottery as a hobby. (more…)
Swing by the BRIDGE Storefront on February 1st for the Valentine’s Night Market. (more…)
Joanne discusses the objects for dining she is currently working on, and shares what she sees as the significance of dining rituals. (more…)
THESIS WORK features the work emerging from the Thesis Research & Design studios and seminars. Over the course of the TRD1 & TRD2 studios, graduate students develop their individual research topics in preparation for their thesis. The intention is to establish a theoretical, historical, and intellectual framework through a diversity of representational modes such as mapping, diagramming, photo essays, writing. (more…)