Echos

University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and Interior Design

Mara Marcu, Edward Mitchell, Mara Marcu, Edward Mitchell

• Publisher: Actar
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781948765046
• eBook ISBN:
  9781638409700
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

The publication captures the work done at the University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and Interior Design while showcasing student work, faculty research, co-op stories, study abroad programs, and snapshots from the many events happening at our school.
ECHOS is a platform for simultaneous conversations with shared ethos at UC SAID. Various constellations begin to surface and map our diverse milieu of academic and social interactions that revolve around the following five main themes: anxiety, praxis, trope, chreod, and utopia. Introduced by a series of analytical diagrams which are paired up with essays by lead figures in the discipline, the themes expand on the issues of theoretical anxiety, architectural discourse, practice, typology, self-made analogies, ad hoc morphologies inherent to research, flux and reflux - that return each disruption to a steady trajectory - similar to the natural cycle of compression and release generated by our co-op program, and the fictitious, the ideal.
Anxiety collects and synthesizes among multiple contradicting theories entertaining with equanimity various solutions to design problems. Praxis looks at outcomes - may those be physical, prototypical, digital or analog, multi-dimensional and multi-media, spoken, written or unwritten - as well as working methodologies that shape design thinking. Trope begins to map out trends, emergent ideologies, and previously non-denominational design expressions. Chreod documents and interprets field conditions, rule based processes, issues of transgressions, non-smooth and nomadic entities which cut across arbolic like divisions. Utopia, while suspending various otherwise necessary constraints, allows for a euphoric and optimistic view of the world, with the goal of envisioning daring possibilities otherwise unimaginable. Utopia, therefore, foreshadows all other themes.

Table of contents

• Mara Marcu
• ANXIETY
• In a City-State of Anxiety
• Future Mobility
• High Rollers Las Vegas Suites
• Architecture as Frame
• DPMT7
• On Emptiness and Détournement
• D.E.E.P. Freeze
• A Rural Identity
• Speculative Interiority
• Architectural Remix
• A Fleeting Register
• Paint by Numbers
• [Hospital]ity
• Between the Figure and Configurations
• PRAXIS
• Praxis
• First Act
• Choreographed Landscape
• Lounder Than A Bomb
• Magic Tricks of the Subway
• On Teaching and Practice
• Catalytic Translations
• Psychology of a Space
• Second Act
• Furniture + Millwork
• Visuals in the Digital Age
• 74°F
• Mapmakers + Trailblazers
• Midwest Modern
• Negotiations
• TROPE
• Trope
• Building From Within / Without
• New Housing in OTR
• Theater of Modern Era: Stage of Equilibrium
• Firetrucks, Row Boats and Boomers
• Zoomable World / Misbehaved Tectonics
• Fashion and Architecture
• Weight: An Investigation
• Design = Constraints
• [FUTURE] + Move
• The Object City
• Kamama Prairie Dwelling
• The Seven of U.S.
• CHREOD
• Chreod
• Disjoint and Distortion
• Optical Illusions of Volume
• Innervate
• What kind of Architect Are You?
• Cellular Growth Fabrication
• Gaining the Higher Ground
• The Strange Wall
• Lucas Museum
• Sahya
• Borderless
• PseudoVertical!
• Computational Ecologies
• Above the Street
• Rationalization of Combinatorial Design for Microhousing
• UTOPIA
• Utopia
• Do Cities Dream of Swallowed Futures?
• SOM Interiors
• Holz und Stein
• The Instrument and the Atlas
• Pilgrimage / / A Dystopia
• Surreal Environments
• Documenting Change at the Rock of Ages
• Wonder as Interruption
• First It Was Cincinnati
• The Alchemy of Space: A Translation
• Storefront Studio
• Machining the American West
• SAID