Unmake

Fall 2020

History of Modern Architecture, University of California, Berkeley

Instructor: Greg Castillo

The Unmake video juxtaposes projections of personal canon projects with the process of making paper from architectural models. The images from the canon accompany excerpts from the manifesto that introduce the viewer to a vision of architecture that is made with the intention of being unmade and used in another form. Simultaneously, the paper making footage depicts the complete architectural models, their deconstruction, and eventual reuse. The Bristol models were initially built for the first year masters studio with the intention that they would live on only in photographs and that the models themselves would end up in the trash. The intention of the Unmake video is to create a microcosm of the manifesto’s life cycle concept in which even paper architecture is dissolved and given a new life. 

Projected images: Neri Oxman - Silk Pavilion, Anni Albers - Wall Hanging, Tatiana Bilbao -Housing+, Diana Scherer - Rootbound, Nabe Architecture - Kintsugi, Interboro - Holding Pattern, Lendager Group - Resource Rows, Experiencia MUVA, Emerging Objects - Mud Frontiers Part II, Martina Taranto - Viral Nature.