Blog - Transitecture

A Place to Be in the Weather, As the Weather

Teatro Cine Jandaia The Teatro Cine Jandaia is a cinema in decay. This space inherited its position on the earth, separated from the water of the existing river that runs below it from a long history of enclosure. Dutch settlers dammed the Rio das Tripas at two locations in order to create a deep moat …

Server, Served

Seeing & Being Seen The facade of the former Time & Life Building, an iconic modernist New York City office building, is recapitulated as commentary on the nature of fine dining, the act of service and the theatricality of the social performance of affluence. The former time and life building was an icon of modernism, …

Materializing Transition

By 2040 we will have recognized that the scale of change needed necessitates an entire social paradigm shift. Although many efforts will have to work synergistically, this project focuses on one piece of that paradigm shift centered around the adoption of algae as a core carbon negative material. The materialized transition constitutes a non-violent …

Amenable Amenity

A Process of Reclamation Golf courses are a quintessential manifestation of a way of conceptualizing land use that is dependent on willful artificiality and act as a vestige of a culture of predatory exclusivity. Starting in the 1800s, in the Hudson Valley there was a shift in the relationship of humans to nature. The concept …

Tourism 1.0

The Hospitality Mass Market Typology The contemporary global model of tourism, it could be argued, was first developed in Hawai’i. Exploring the agency of objects, and embracing the ontological methodology proposed by the Object Oriented Ontology (OOO) developed by Graham Harman, this series of drawings was created as a brief entry point into the first …