INFORMATION
I am a graduate of New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study; from Los Angeles. My studies focused on the intersection of art & design, architecture, and culture.
Booklist Select Works-
- Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg. 2018
- A Primer of Visual Literacy, Donis A. Dondis. 1973
- Uneven Development: Public Art in New York City, Rosalyn Deutsche. 1988
- Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary, Marina Warner, 1990
- Cross section of the dome of St. Peter's in Rome, Michelangelo. 1550 - 1561 CE
- Plan and elevation of the colonnade in Saint Peter's piazza, Bernini. 1650s CE
- De Architectura, “Book I,” Vitruvius. 30-15 BCE
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs. 1961
From my 2018 Gallatin Rationale-
Architecture is not only a form of art to be looked at, it is the art we inhabit. As someone with a strong visual design background, the focus for my rationale has turned to an exploration of the way architectural design affects inhabitants. I first wanted to background this with global and historical understandings. My semester abroad in Madrid informed this area heavily. There, my classes centered around art, myth, culture, history, identity, and language. This included my “Art and Social Movements in Spain” course, which investigated the interaction of art and architecture with social change, as well as “Masterpieces in the Prado Museum,” which looked at the mixed cultural history of Spain through the lens of art history. Living in a country with a complicated, multicultural past gave me a new perspective for viewing my home country, the United States. I wanted to know more about social and economic systems, and how they were influenced by art and history.
The subject of identity has arisen repeatedly as I have explored these areas. Existing at both an individual and a group level, identity plays a key role in how we understand ourselves; our past, present, and future. It is informed heavily by culture, which in this case refers to a collection of shared social characteristics and styles. It is true that culture is socially constructed, in that we have a tendency to view groups as bounded wholes with clearly defined characteristics specific to each group. In reality, no culture exists in a vacuum; ideas and styles pass among groups of people, with no real physical borders between them. Still, group behavior does have recognizable patterns, and it is in our nature to operate using patterns as a basis for understanding social existence. Identity is relevant in this way: if by culture we form identity, and by identity we form an idea of ourselves, and it is according to that idea of ourselves that we operate in society, then identity is a key aspect to understanding social existence. Seeing art and architecture as informants of identity, I understand it as a major underlying theme necessary for exploring the topic of art inhabited.
Architecture is not only a form of art to be looked at, it is the art we inhabit. As someone with a strong visual design background, the focus for my rationale has turned to an exploration of the way architectural design affects inhabitants. I first wanted to background this with global and historical understandings. My semester abroad in Madrid informed this area heavily. There, my classes centered around art, myth, culture, history, identity, and language. This included my “Art and Social Movements in Spain” course, which investigated the interaction of art and architecture with social change, as well as “Masterpieces in the Prado Museum,” which looked at the mixed cultural history of Spain through the lens of art history. Living in a country with a complicated, multicultural past gave me a new perspective for viewing my home country, the United States. I wanted to know more about social and economic systems, and how they were influenced by art and history.
The subject of identity has arisen repeatedly as I have explored these areas. Existing at both an individual and a group level, identity plays a key role in how we understand ourselves; our past, present, and future. It is informed heavily by culture, which in this case refers to a collection of shared social characteristics and styles. It is true that culture is socially constructed, in that we have a tendency to view groups as bounded wholes with clearly defined characteristics specific to each group. In reality, no culture exists in a vacuum; ideas and styles pass among groups of people, with no real physical borders between them. Still, group behavior does have recognizable patterns, and it is in our nature to operate using patterns as a basis for understanding social existence. Identity is relevant in this way: if by culture we form identity, and by identity we form an idea of ourselves, and it is according to that idea of ourselves that we operate in society, then identity is a key aspect to understanding social existence. Seeing art and architecture as informants of identity, I understand it as a major underlying theme necessary for exploring the topic of art inhabited.
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