COLLAGE: Architecture Visual Representation Seminar Student Work

Abstract

The work presented in this exhibition explores the medium of collage, its techniques and its processes, and most importantly, its potential to construct three-dimensional space.  Here the material is the protagonist, a shameless accomplice embedded with a critical incompleteness and a willingness to be modified into a continuously transforming spatial act. It argues for a loss of control, for the amplification of the sensual, for an awakening of the unexpected, the found, the hidden, the neglected, and the discarded, all saturated by the potential of the re-imagination. It rejects the already known, the complete, the fixed, the controlled.

All work completed by the following participants in the fall 2025 Visual Representation seminar: COLLAGE.

• Akiel Allen (M.Arch. ’25)
• Natasha Becker (B.Arch. ’26)
• Raihaan Bose (B.Arch. ’26)
• Pia Cortes-Guerrero (B.Arch. ’27)
• Yashada Deshpande (M.S. AAD ’25)
• Victoria Lee (B.Arch. ’26)
• Lily Mager (B.Arch. ’26)
• Maria Mendoza Blanco (B.Arch. ’26)
• Jose Ortega (B.Arch. ’26)
• Ben Pahucki (B.Arch. ’26)
• Roy Park (B.Arch. ’28)
• Sally Tang (B.Arch. ’26)
• Haoning Zhao (M.Arch. ’27)

Seminar taught by Andrea Simitch, Professor of Architecture and Steven H. Weiss Presidential Fellow.