THE PROCESS BEGINS

brief__an extension to the school of design__design and exhibition spaces__100 x individual studio spaces

area__max 4 levels__500sqm footprint

location__howard smith wharves

constraints__construction parts are brought in__in shipping containers__so majority of construction is prefabricated

reference__programme for the first working group of constructivists_alexander rodchenko_1921

1. In the ideological sphere__to prove theoretically and practically the incompatibility of aesthetic activity with the functions of intellectual and material production__the real participation of intellectual and material production as an equal element in the creation of [ __ ] culture
2. in the practical sphere__to construct designs__to organise exhibitions
3. in the agitational sphere__the group declares an uncompromising war on art__it asserts that the art of the past is unacceptable for the [ __ ] forms of constructivist structures

The ‘First Working Group of Constructivists’ emphasises the importance in the materiality of art – which provides insight, expression and reflection through ‘application’, the inherent ‘properties’ and the ‘significance’ of the material in said installation (Rodchenko, A. et al. 1922. p342). In conjunction with the material itself, the art must also incorporate such formal qualities as “time, space, volume, plane, colour,

line and light”, (Rodchenko, A. et al. 1922. p342).

russian suprematism__fundamentally distinct geometric forms__square and circle

signify new beginning__new order__forms in movement and through time

shifting axis__multiple perspective

el lissitzky_Wolkenbügel (cloud-iron)__1942

a comparison with_revealation__2012

Rodchenko, A. and V. Stepanova, "Programme of the First Working Group of

Constructivists" in Harrison, Charles and Wood, Paul,Art in theory, 1900-2000 : an

anthology of changing ideas, Oxford, U.K: Blackwell, pp.341-343