2010F_Arch Design 2_Combs Section
ARCH-2200 | Lonn Combs, Assistant Professor
Material Manifestations: Archive and Exhibition Center for the Legacy of the Shakers
Selected Student Work:
Anthony Policastro
Kira Wong
The preservation of history through it’s material production is the subject of this core design studio. Addressing the utopian society of the Shakers who flourished during a relatively brief period of the 19th Century, the studio begins as an analytical journey through the artifacts of the Shaker society established at Hancock and Mount Lebanon, New York. The students began with a transformative analysis of these cultural artifacts, finding in them their relationships, physical and ideological, to the construction and maintenance of the society they were instrumental in sustaining. The Shakers imbued their actions with symbolism not their objects. Their objects, unadorned, functionally efficient, collapsed the collective memory of their utopian societies when closely understood. With a set of temporal and spatial organizational strategies emergent in analytical drawings and diagrams, the students were then confronted with the question of architecture as the curation of cultural memory in the project of a museum and archive of Shaker artifacts. The museum site is located at Hancock New York within the context of the historic Shaker village where the architectural designs respond to the condition of contemporary architectural interventions a sensitive and historic environment.
Carrie Drexel
Anthony Policastro
Michael Stradley
Kira Wong
