overconstruction_catie newell_wallenberg studio winter 2010

the wallenberg studios for the winter 2010 semester will focus on architecture as infrastructure. each studio instructor has taken a varying stance/position on this architectural issue and have challenged the ug4's to a semester of investigation, production, and insight towards a solution, or rather an interpretation of architecture as infrastructure through a "mini thesis."

for catie, the interest lies within "overconstruction," in other words, stalled construction sites. the goal for the semester is to inquire what else could take place within a stalled site, issues of temporality, program, culture, civic space are all on the table for us to endeavor. we will venture to brooklyn, new york, January 28 - January 31, to examine and create a site analysis of what will eventually become the homestead for our wallenberg studio projects. in addition, we will be introduced to architects and architectural projects alike, as a first hand precedent study, to gather a stronger sense of what architecture as infrastructure means.

more on brooklyn and my findings when i return sunday evening.