USC Architecture XpoInstructor: Hadrian Predock
This project explores how forms of visual representation can be speculative and generate design; it investigates how applying abstraction in architecture, in this case, Victorian architecture in San Francisco, can transform ordinary housing into something that challenges our perception of the familiar. Pixtorian Housing digitally processes Victorian architecture through the lense of a video game […]
Architecture of the built environment (and reality in general) is overwhelmingly ordinary. This ordinariness is represented through a range of architectural expressions: the generic, the copy, the perfunctory, the banal, the useful, the bare logics of capitalism, etc. Arguably some of the stranger and more compelling recent forms of visual expression exist much more closely […]