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speculative rendering in response to ‘emptiness’
 2022
Installation

The space of the rotunda in the Lehman College Art Department, one of Marcel Breuer’s first buildings in New York completed in 1960, was previously Hunter College’s Library. Our present-day building functions as Lehman College’s Fine Art Building, lecturing classes in Art History, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Ceramics, Woodwork, Photography, Graphic Design, and Computer Graphics and Imaging. Through steel cables, graphite lines, and wooden studs; the use of line(s) reformats and speculatively renders a plan of the rotunda. Following archival documents courtesy of the Syracuse University Library, each connection between photograph and line opens a space for the loss of information—a separated or fragmented memory of the construction and pre-existing layout of the building. In responding to ‘emptiness’, the architectural navigation between materials reveal an ‘invisible’ mechanism of shadows and lines.



Presentation Set, p. 6, 1955-1959, Hunter College Library, Classroom, and Administration Buildings. Bronx, NY, USA. Courtesy of Syracuse University, image supplied by the Marcel Breuer Papers, Syracuse University Library. Presentation Set, p. 7, 1955-1959, Hunter College Library, Classroom, and Administration Buildings. Bronx, NY, USA. Courtesy of Syracuse University, image supplied by the Marcel Breuer Papers, Syracuse University Library. J. Cribbin, 1958, Exterior Builder’s Photographs, Hunter College Library, Classroom, and Administration Buildings. Courtesy of Syracuse University, image supplied by the Marcel Breuer Papers, Syracuse University Library. Don Gehring, Wire Reinforcement Construction Photos, Hunter College Library, Classrooms, and Administration Buildings, Bronx, NY, USA. Courtsey of Syracuse University, image supplied by the Marcel Breuer Papers, Syracuse University Library. J. Cribbin, 1958, Construction Phase of Roof Umbrellas, Hunter College Library, Classroom, and Administration Buildings. Courtesy of Syracuse University, image supplied by the Marcel Breuer Papers, Syracuse University Library. Don Gehring, Wire Reinforcement Construction Photos, Hunter College Library, Classroom, and Administration Buildings, Bronx, NY USA. Courtesy of Syracuse University, image supplied by the Marcel Breuer Papers, Syracuse University Library. Don Gehring, Wire Reinforcement Construction Photos, Hunter College Library, Classroom, and Administration Buildings, Bronx, NY USA. Courtesy of Syracuse University, image supplied by the Marcel Breuer Papers, Syracuse University Library 2 Don Gehring, Wire Reinforcement Construction Photos, Hunter College Library, Classroom, and Administration Buildings, Bronx, NY USA. Courtesy of Syracuse University, image supplied by the Marcel Breuer Papers, Syracuse University Library. 2 Hunter College Library, Interior View, 1957-1960, Hunter College Library, Classroom, and Administration Buildings, Bronx, NY USA. Courtesy of Syracuse University, image supplied Marcel Breuer Paper, Syracuse University Library.

Various Documents, courtesy of Syracuse Universtiy, supplied by the Marcel Breuer Papers, Syracuse Library.