PATTERNISM: Futurism meets Villa Farnese

This series of drawings emerged from a seminar entitled “patternism” which investigated the emphasis on representation that has recently emerged in the discipline of architecture. These drawings explored the potential of computational software as tools to generate new forms of representation. Starting from the geometry of the villa Farnese, the drawings were graphically influenced by futurist paintings. The speed and movement expressed in the Boccioni’s paintings finds similarities in the affect of repetition and infinite possibilities generated by computational software. Using colorful vector lines on a black background became an important aspect of the project since it can only be precisely done digitally.

Fall 2014 // Critic: Brennan Buck

Project selected for Retrospecta 39

Project published in suckerPUNCH design blog

FULL OF COLOR: Reinterpreting Casa del Fascio

The Casa del Fascio, the headquarters of the Italian fascist party, was built by the architect Giuseppe Terragni between 1932 and 1936. Often described as an abstract white mass, the building, which directly faces the Como Cathedral, fascinates due to its combination of classicism – the villa – and modernism – the rational white grid. However, after a sojourn in Como, I realized that beyond its formal complexity lied an exquisite use of material and color. As a result, the main ambition of this drawing project was to translate the vivacity of its materiality as a crucial element of its success. Furthermore, the painting imagines Como in ruins where only the monuments survived: the Casa del Fascio facing the Cathedral in this absolute confrontational instance. 

Summer 2014 // Critic: John Blood & John Eberhart

Visualization

Drawings published in Retrospecta 37

Critic: Kent Bloomer & Sunil Bald

Sept 2013- Dec 2013