4 DAY WORKSHOP WITH PERRY KULPER

Using the 'Rock of Ages #7' photograph by Edward Burtynsky from the quarry series as a site, and one of the 4 methods studied with Perry, in our case the Analogic method (that works establishing analogies for the elements in the construct: 'this is like that') the task was to design a Motel, which we deided would be like a snake, that slides from level to level of the quarry. It's scales are like lost memories, like reflexions of experiences, like people carrying their homes on their backs... they come and go, leaving parts of them behind that will be forgotten, that will be lost in time, cleaned up, replaced. The Motel sheds it's skin of memories.

Perry Kulper is an architect and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. Prior to his arrival at the University of Michigan he was a member of the faculty at SCI-Arc for 17 years as well as in visiting positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Arizona State University. Subsequent to his studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and Columbia University he worked in the offices of Eisenman/ Robertson, Robert A.M. Stern and Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown before moving to Los Angeles. His interests include the roles of representation and methodologies in the production of architecture and in broadening the conceptual range by which architecture contributes to our cultural imagination.