PROFESSOR
Kit Krankel McCullough
STUDIO THEME
“Coming Together”
We are coming together again.
We are sharing space once more. We are returning to the experience of our physical being. We feel heat, see light, hear sound. The ways in which our bodies respond to place create patterns of living that remain timeless and universal.
Light, heat, sound are particular to place. The activities of daily life shape spaces in response to the phenomena of place. Patterns of living in place form typologies that are specific to locale. Place is further defined by physical materials. Perception is exquisitely localvore.
Our study of patterns operated at multiple scales: We examined the patterns of place and typologies that serve as increments of neighborhood. We studied the patterns of living that inform increments of housing.
We examined patterns of occupation that shape rooms, and the patterns of activity that shape the increments of rooms: doors, windows, thresholds. We looked at patterns in the craft of building: patterns of materials and patterns of assemblies. We studied the patterns of daily life that create the places we call our homes. We considered how these activities can bring us together to form community.
We explored how place shapes the architecture of housing, and how housing shapes the life within and the life without—the communal life that binds us together.
We are sharing space once more. We are returning to the experience of our physical being. We feel heat, see light, hear sound. The ways in which our bodies respond to place create patterns of living that remain timeless and universal.
Light, heat, sound are particular to place. The activities of daily life shape spaces in response to the phenomena of place. Patterns of living in place form typologies that are specific to locale. Place is further defined by physical materials. Perception is exquisitely localvore.
Our study of patterns operated at multiple scales: We examined the patterns of place and typologies that serve as increments of neighborhood. We studied the patterns of living that inform increments of housing.
We examined patterns of occupation that shape rooms, and the patterns of activity that shape the increments of rooms: doors, windows, thresholds. We looked at patterns in the craft of building: patterns of materials and patterns of assemblies. We studied the patterns of daily life that create the places we call our homes. We considered how these activities can bring us together to form community.
We explored how place shapes the architecture of housing, and how housing shapes the life within and the life without—the communal life that binds us together.