Architectural Design, Level II: Material and Tectonic Transformations: The Herreshoff Museum
4.131B · Architecture · Graduate · Fall 2003
Prof. Paul Lukez
This semester students are asked to transform the Hereshoff Museum in Bristol, Rhode Island, through processes of erasure and addition. Hereshoff Manufacturing was recognized as one of the premier builders of America’s Cup racing boats between 1890’s and 1930’s. The studio, however, is about more than the program. It is about land, water, and wind and the search for expressing materially and tectonically the relationships between these principle conditions. That is, where the land is …
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