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Course Description

Summary

In this course, we will explore the visual and spatial potential of cut paper models. The course will begin with a number of directed drawing and model-making exercises, and end with original work made with paper, knives, and glue. Students will study and do research on paper models by a variety of contemporary artists and architects–Zarina's paper houses, Siah Armajani's bridges, James Casebere's abandoned tabletop constructions, Bodys Isek Kingelez's dazzling utopian propositions, and many others. Through research and experimentation, we will discuss (the Constructivist notion of) the usefulness of art, interiors and photographic space, and the spatial paper object as a response to the modernist separation of media. While much of the work covered in this course relates to architectural space as rendered by artists, working through an architectural lens is not an expectation.