Students create F.L. Wright environments for Guggenheim exhibition
Students in the Interactive Spaces course led by Allen Sayegh, Lecturer in Architecture, assisted in creating the digital and interactive installations for the exhibition, “Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward,” that opened on May 15 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The special animations offer viewers the opportunity to experience an interpretation of nine of Wright’s un-built or demolished projects as well as his own Taliesin and Taliesin West.
Offered by the Department of Architecture, Interactive Spaces provides the framework for the design of advanced spatial interactivity on the Internet. By rethinking the relation between information and space, the course investigates the potential of digital models, as end products, on the Internet. Students critically assesses existing 3D multi-user environments and their design and study a series of instrumental subjects, including modeling strategies, animations, and interactive design concepts. Students use the tools acquired in the course to design product-oriented 3D interactive spaces, such as the one at the Guggenheim.
The following degree candidates partcipated in the project: Justin Chen (MArch I), Yen Ting Cho (MDES), Shelby Doyle (MArch I), Sidi Gomes (MArch I), Janna Kauss (MArch I), Vivien Liu (MArch I), Olga Orchakova (MArch II), Payap Pakdeelao (MArch I), Arlene Persaud (MDES), John Pugh (MIT), David Saladik (MArch I), and Gregory Taylor (MArch II).
The architectural firm of Wendy Evans Joseph, FAIA, MArch ’81, designed the Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition, portions of which are on display in the Sackler Center in the Guggenheim basement.
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