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Lost Lines

Linee Occulte at New York’s Citygroup explores the unseen in architecture

By Aaron Smithson • July 5, 2021 • Architecture, Art, East, On View


Posted on: September 13, 2018

Studio Prize: Animate Archi-Tectonics: Structural Configurations Between Lines, Planes, and Volumes

This first-year undergraduate studio at the Cooper Union explored the principles of form and space by starting with Paul Klee's idea that "a drawing is taking a line for a walk."


Investigation | Mersiha Veledar, an assistant professor at the Cooper Union, doesn’t believe in easing her first-year students into the school’s rigorous undergraduate program—and it shows in the way she designed her studio, Animate Archi-Tectonics, which throws them headfirst into a deep exploration of how lines, planes, and volumes come together to create architectural forms.

The studio is split into three phases, beginning with an examination of the ways lines intersect. From those drawings, students investigate how the forms created by those intersections function at different scales and dimensions; they then build models, which they test in terms of scale and habitation—inserting doors and stairs, for example.

“In my book the most exciting thing about this studio is showing students how abstractions can be made real,” Veledar says.

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RIBA President’s Medals: Silver
Cycles of Toolmaking: An Optic, Tactile, Haptic, Material, Scalar and Pedagogic Study

Cooper Union, New York

Student: Daniel Hall

Tutors: Lauren Kogod and Mersiha Veledar

 ‘Patterns emerge, as cycles of tool marks are used and misused. Embedded in the character of these patterns are indicators of time, scale, movements of the human body, and a genealogy of tool evolution.’

The Cooper Union Finals

April 30, 2015

The last few months have been un-real in the private realm. This was a good moment with leading the architectonics studio. 

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