Wed Lecture Notes Feb. 29

Materials
-Tectonics - way materials behave in a system
Warhole
-Way to deal with society is to escape it.
70's & 80's
-post modern movement
-escape,lost archives
-confusion about use of materials
-new formal language about the use of history in architecture
-ecological awareness
Smithson
-ecological awareness
-immersion into site
-non-sites
-translating the work done on site
-representation of the work in the gallery space
-non-site is dependent on the "real" site
-how to represent the landscape?
-photography was the primary means of transfer from site to non-site
-smithson referred to these as abstract maps
-smithson liked sedimentation; engages mind, body, nature; the relationship humans have with nature
-both humans & nature are in a state of decay
-he used the decay to create art
-industry and technology have become a part of earth's geology
Michal Heiser
-loved tools; land art
-mechanized means of how these projects could be built.
Double Negative
-trace of the landscape at a huge scale
-displaced tons of earth that was put on the surrounding hills
-Nevada desert
Ava Hest
-testing materials and seeing limits and qualities of materials
-project depended on how much material she had
-"non-art"
-how to make something that doesn't look constructed
Enric Miralles
-Gabbian wall system
-exposes structure system
-allows overgrowth
Lara Almarcegai
-construction materials
Cristina Iglesias
-suspended corridor
-copper wire woven and hung