"Condemned Building”/ Architectural Drawings
"Oxygen House - Anatomical Section", by Doug Darden, lithograph, 33 x 23 1/2 inches (83.82 x 59.69 cm), 1993
January 22nd – March 31st, 2023
Reception: Thursday March 7th 2023, 5-7pm
Shortly before he died in 1996, Doug Darden worked with the printmaking studio of Osama Nakasuji, Osaka, Japan, to create a unique set of ten prints made from drawings of five of the theoretical projects from his architectural treatise Condemned Building. Darden, in the spirit of the century French architect Jean-Jacques Lequeu, used this title to convey ideas that may not fit into the canon of acceptable work.
The School of Architecture and Interior Design celebrates the importance of drawing in its many forms in an exhibit of Darden’s lithographs along with drawings from alumni of the School. While the conventions of architectural drawing are often for the legal production of building documents, architects have also used drawing as a form of speculation. The work shown includes travel sketches, conceptual drawings, drawings in the landscape, erotic forms of protest and work in video and AI as tools for investigation, fantasy, and projection.
West Gallery
Doug Darden
Museum of Imposters
Museum of Imposters - Cross Section & Longitudinal Section, lithographs, each 33 x 23 1/2 inches (83.82 x 59.69 cm), 1993
Night School
Night school - Cross Section & Plan View, lithographs, each 33 x 23 1/2 inches (83.82 x 59.69 cm), 1993
Temple Forgetful
Temple Forgetful - Elevation, Palatine Hill & Elevation with Basilica of Maxentius, lithographs, each 33 x 23 1/2 inches (83.82 x 59.69 cm), 1993
Oxygen House
Oxygen House - South Elevation & Anatomical Section, lithographs, each 33 x 23 1/2 inches (83.82 x 59.69 cm), 1993
Hostel
Hostel - Northwest Elevation & Cross Section, lithographs, each 33 x 23 1/2 inches (83.82 x 59.69 cm), 1993
East Gallery
William Wesley Taylor
MLK Memorial Drawings
digital prints
each18 x 24 inches (45.72 x 60.96 cm)
2017 - present
Jacob McGowan
Bennet Nieman
Michael Graves
Aaron Tobey
House of Puzzle Maker, section through working/sleeping spaces at low tide, mixed media, each 19 1/8 x 27 inches (48.26 x 68.58 cm), 2013
mixed media
each 19 1/8 x 27 inches (48.26 x 68.58 cm)
2013
Terry Welker
Kelsey de Polo
Brendan Girten
Michael Schuster
Dan Bube
Meandering River Garden Resort, pencil on paper, date unknown
pencil on paper
various sizes listed below images
dates unknown
