LARP 501 - Studio I

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Faculty. The focus of this foundation studio is to explore ways of recording and representing landscape - with an emphasis on material, space, rhythm and measure - through a range of drawings and constructions. The studio attempts to create a sensibility toward landscape where the act of surveying a site is as much an imaginative endeavor as is the crafting of an artifact or the construction of a path in a landscape. Emphasis is placed on visual and manual skills in two dimensional and three dimensional constructions (drawing, fabrications, model-making, etc.), while developing ways to "see" landscape. The studio is structured around the themes of wetness/dryness and enclosure/disclosure, and works with one or more sites in the Philadelphia region. In the past, the studio has focused on a territory around Martha's Furnace in the Pine Barrens, N.J.; a part of the Meadowlands in northern N.J.; an anthracite strip-mine in part of Pennsylvania's Appalachian Mountains; Great Falls in Paterson, N.J.; and the Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia. Projects involve the making of pathways, platforms, and arkings in these otherwise undesigned environments.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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