THESIS: A series
Chanel Dehond will be defending her thesis entitled A series on Monday, December 8th, at 6pm in the Loft, BYOP (Bring Your Own Pillows) as we will be getting cozy on the ground in darkness.
Exhibition: A Strange Inversion
Everyone is invited tonight from 6-8pm and Friday 1-6pm to partake in A Strange Inversion, an installation project by Andrea Sooyoun Kim as part of her thesis entitled [Un]homely Space: The Unbecoming of Everyday Architecture. The exhibition reveals the secret of everyday architecture in which our unconscious is projected onto the physical materiality, creating spaces that are neither real or unreal. J
THESIS: Second Skin Painting Architecture
Stephanie Boutari will be defending her thesis entitled Second Skin: Painting Architecture on Monday December 1st at 2PM in the Loft. Her work, which was also featured in Design at Riverside’s Masters Works 2014, is a creative and conceptual inquiry into the role of surface or skin in architectural theory and practice.
Re:PoST Thesis to Practice
Re:PoST is an annual event which explores opportunities for disseminating architecture design and research. The team is currently developing this year’s symposium focusing on the translation from thesis to practice and are looking from ideas and input from graduate students.
THESIS: The Adventures of Goat
On Tuesday October 28th at 2pm, Melissa Shea will present her thesis in the loft. “This is a story about a Goat, who is an Animated & a Talking Goat, unusually, for an Architect. There are also other Talking Animals, such as a Moose, a Butterfly by the name of Bill, a Beaver, and a Jackalope—the Jackalope is a bit scary, but perhaps they are all friends. In any case, there are also Buildings, or this would not be a Master’s Thesis in Architecture.”
Thesis Peer Review
Peer Review is an intellectual event for graduate students to present their thesis work to their peers for helpful feedback. The event will be held on Thursday October 23rd at 8pm at the BRIDGE Pop-Up.
THESIS: Bush Garden
To garden is to draw with the land. This tending is the primary act of culture: to perpetuate a people by negotiating with a place.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: FALL 2014
Would you like to see your work exhibited on the BRIDGE website? The BRIDGE team is inviting you to submit your studio projects to be included in a series that will weekly feature student work.
THESIS: Algae Textile
Abstract by Petra Bogias By innovating the photobioreactor, the growth of algae can be deployed as a performative and ecological layer within contemporary building systems. Proposed is an algae textile: a building–integrated photobioreactor organized as a flexible membrane, whose form can be adjusted according to given programmatic and environmental conditions. This organization translates functions from industrial photobioreactors into forms that can operate at the lightweight scale of an enclosure or partition, demonstrating how algae might...
THESIS: On the Border: Antagonistic Architectures | Evanescent Territories
The Northern Pass || El Paso del Norte spills through the narrow Rio Grande Valley that separates the southernmost extent of the Rocky Mountains from the Sierra Madres, dividing the bi-national metropolis of El Paso, Texas || Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. The two halves of this border landscape are interlaced in an intricate choreography of disparities that mine the strategic overlap of territories.