The Exhibits.
Friday, May 5, 2023, 5 - 8 PM
Lace Village |1315 Meylert Ave, Scranton, Penna, 18509
1
Speculative Interpretations of Piranesi's Rome
2A
The Center for Cultural and Lingusitic Studies of Indigenous People in the United States
2IA
The Art of Living v.11: an Exhibition of Furniture Concepts
3
Redefining the Streetscape: Mix-used Building Project in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia
4A
Masterplanning The American Campus
4IA
Heritage Re-Anchored at the Gravity Slope Colliery
6.2
A house: a joint, a frame, a threshold
5.1
Past I Present I Future: Explorations of the Public Realm
6.3
Thesis Exhibition
5.2
Glacier Jane: A New Vision for Mariners Unit at Camp Archbald
6.1
McAdoo: A Place of People and Collective Memory
1
Speculative Interpretations of Piranesi's Rome
Curated by James Eckler, Arian Korkuti, Joshua Berman, Joe Leone, Xiaoye Han, Sean Ritter | 1st Year Architecture + Interior Architecture
Giovanni Battista Piranesi drew a map of Rome's Campus Martius in 1762 that provided a novel understanding of the way cities work. Rather than buildings, he drew every column, and wall. Instead of a field of darkened boxes, the Piranesi map is a constellation of points and lines that frame the continuity of spaces in which we live and work. The first year students at the Marywood University School of Architecture have recreated this map and interpreted it as the starting point for spatial exploration in their own designs.
2A
The Center for Cultural and Linguistic Studies of Indigenous People in the United States
Curated by Arian Korkuti, Catherine Armezzani, and Sean Ritter | 2nd Year Architecture
DESIGN IV Group exhibition offers a display of architectural propositions for a center which in its program accommodates the association of representatives from nine geographic divisions of indigenous groups of people in the United States. The proposed center offers opportunities of scholarship in indigenous culture and linguistics to researchers and general public interest. Furthermore, the proposed center acts as a symbolic cultural consulate of indigenous groups of people in the U.S. to the United Nations.
2IA
The Art of Living v.11: an Exhibition of Furniture Concepts
Curated by Stephen Garrison | 2nd year Interior Architecture
The 2023 Art of Living exhibition will be the 11th installment of the exhibition celebrating the furniture design concepts executed by the Marywood 2nd year Interior Architecture students. Each student has explored their individual needs and crafted a piece of seating to meet their unique parameters and necessities.
3
Redefining the Streetscape: Mix-used Building Project in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia
Curated by Liyang Ding, Russell Roberts, Arturo Pavani, Andrew Babinski, Taylor Barksdale, Ryan Benedict, Amanda Casimiro, Jacob Dolinish, Luis Flores, Alyssa Green, Emily Gunsel, Tyler Kraft, Michael Kobiereckio, Matthew Kubasti, Cydney Lahr, Connor Laity, James Marsh, Frances Monroe, Nolla Morawiec, Alexandra Murphy, Sage Napolitano, Blake Nickel, Karen Pan, Logan Pfaff, Alyssa Repos, Derrick Ricci-Riner, Joseph Sanfilippo, Autumn Saviski, Marina Schaeffer, Rasheed Sexius-Clerie, Maxwell Slusser, Luke Stine, Olivia Talarico, Ashley Walter, and Victoria Weber | 3rd-year Architecture
“Redefining the Streetscape” is based on a 3rd-year architectural studio at the School of Architecture, Marywood University. In this studio, students are tasked with developing a mixed-use multi-family housing project located on an irregular site in Northern Liberties, one of Philadelphia’s culturally and artistically rich neighborhoods. The project aims to provide a renewed understanding of the primary principles of what Jane Jacobs considers “good urban spaces” and how to create “safe sidewalks” while leveraging and redefining vibrant urban living in today’s American cities.
“Redefining the Streetscape” revolves around two main focuses of the project, “layout” and “streetscape,” respectively. First, the exhibition explores new possibilities for dwelling units that accommodate young residents’ ever-changing living patterns as well as encourage productive dialogue between the private and public domain, with considerations of both post-COVID life and accessibility for the disabled. Second, the exhibition presents students’ visions of a dynamic, welcoming, and safe streetscape along the perimeter of the site, showcasing an attempt to create electric and exciting interfaces between the building, the neighborhood, and the city.
4A
Masterplanning The American Campus
Curated by Maria MacDonald, Richard Leonori, Kim Hagan | 4th year Architecture
The roots of campus planning go back to Medieval Europe. However, it is mainly in America where modern campus planning has evolved. Marywood University School of Architecture's Fourth Year Design Studio will showcase their research and masterplan of an empty lot at The University of Scranton. Students were tasked to create a cohesive campus from what was a traditional street-grid late 19th-century neighborhood, small acquisition by small acquisition, often contentiously, within its larger urban setting. The evolution of the American campus is a continuous process. Today, virtually every campus faces serious impact from car traffic and parking shortages, the university campus remains the single-most predominantly pedestrian-oriented built environment on a continent where the automobile continues to dominate land use and development. Although many campuses are urban, or increasingly urban, the established ideal of integrating greenspace and landscaping seeks to make available an essentially arcadian experience for the academic community. This design studio demonstrates the ability to synthesize comprehensive, relevant, and quality design skills when applied to project program study and analysis as well as the program’s application in the design. Students will showcase relevance, comprehensiveness and quality of precedent studies, site and landscape investigations and their application. A breadth and depth of understanding of architectural form and vocabularies and the success of their application will be evident in the design at each stage.
4IA
Heritage Re-Anchored at the Gravity Slope Colliery
Curated by Joshua Berman | 3rd + 4th year Interior Architecture
For the community of Archbald, the energy and importance of old places emanates from the Gravity Slope Colliery, a group of coal mining structures located on Laurel Street, initially opened in 1913. Through a community-based approach, with a sensitivity to the historical dimension of the site, students from Marywood University's third and fourth year Interior Architecture studios collaborated with the Borough of Archbald, the Gravity Slope Committee, and the Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority in the conceptualization of the Gravity Slope Colliery Recreational Park Project. With Marywood's new Living City Labs, this effort represents how a community's dedication to its heritage resources can bring about impactful change and empower a community through the preservation and rehabilitation of its cultural memory through placemaking. Since 2021, interior architecture students and the School of Architecture have used this initiative to form bonds between Marywood's community and their surrounding neighbors at both the local and regional scale.
5.1
Past I Present I Future: Explorations of the Public Realm
Curated by Elizabeth Andrzejewski & Michelle Pannone | 5th year Architecture
Past I Present I Future: Explorations of the Public Realm displays work from 5th year architectural students at Marywood University who have spent the past year analyzing tectonic, environmental, social and historical influences on the built environment. This exhibition is a curated selection of their larger research and design process which speculates on the public realm through vignettes of past, present, and future.
5.2
Glacier Jane: A New Vision for Mariners Unit at Camp Archbald
Curated by Jodi La Coe & Maria MacDonald | 5th year Interior Architecture
Glacier Jane envisions a zero-energy revitalization of Mariners' Camp at Girl Scouts' Camp Archbald, where urban activist Jane Jacobs trained her powers of observation on the riparian ecology surrounding Ely Lake. In 1938, Mariners’ Camp was constructed for a teenaged troop on the north shore of a 45-acre glacial lake and boasted the first floating cabin ever built for the Girl Scouts of the USA. Floating on the pristine waters of Ely Lake as they slowly flow into nearby Meshoppen Creek before joining the north branch of the Susquehanna River en-route to the Chesapeake Bay, Glacier Jane will serve as a living laboratory for water research.
6.1
McAdoo: A Place of People and Collective Memory
Curated by Stephanie Golden | Master of Interior Architecture
Advisor: Dr. Arian Korkuti, Assistant Professor of Architecture
School of Architecture, Marywood University
My comprehensive inquiry on the compositional layers of McAdoo has revealed many previously untold truths about the human condition and resilience of its collective memory, which transform this miner’s town into a place.
The character of many generations of coal mining families has amassed into a strong set of strata in the memory of this town. McAdoo exists in the hope of overcoming the economic drive leading to sporadic urban growth. As a place, McAdoo will never be separated from its roots, as the evidence of the industrial revolution scars the people and place indefinitely. The early laborers built a town not through infrastructure, but by coming together to persistently mold the best place of which they could be proud.
An abandoned warehouse on the corner of South Kennedy Drive and 7th Street has become an embodiment of McAdoo. Employing a multiple perspective approach to observe the town’s history, interpret personal heritage, and search for the ideal condition, allows for a well-rounded exploration of a potential proposition. I am acting upon my obligation to contribute to the further tempering of this place’s character, ideally achieving the best of the human condition.
6.2
A house: a joint, a frame, a threshold
Curated by Quinn McGreevy | Master of Interior Architecture
Advisor: Dr. Arian Korkuti, Assistant Professor of Architecture
School of Architecture, Marywood University
This thesis is anchored to the proposition of a house which exists as concerted effort of poetics. This stance begins with a joint which exemplifies the union of parts, becoming a driver in the structural and aesthetic form of the house. The frame follows, as a question carrying in itself the obligation of a new world being staged, materialized. Furthermore, a threshold, dividing the glorified natural, and the artificial – or that which is made. In demonstrating the poetics, this thesis takes advantage of a number of representation techniques and other forms of inquiry.
6.3
Thesis Exhibition
Curated by Sean Ritter | Master of Interior Architecture
Advisor: Dr. Arian Korkuti, Assistant Professor of Architecture
School of Architecture, Marywood University
When inhabitance, or how we dwell, defines who we are as a collective, and the things that define us fail to work with how we inhabit, and dwell, they fail to mean anything to us. This cyclical notion, as society develops, promotes urban defects and a way of dwelling within a city, neighborhood, or building, that creates metaphoric voids, gaps, left-over spaces, or opportunities for the process of “unbuilding”. This thesis focuses on the experimental rethinking of the precedence of authenticity as a driving factor for how we should build and dwell in a contemporary post-industrial American city. Building upon authenticity through the notion of juxtaposition, it will activate the spaces between to bridge a connection between the meaning, and definition of place and the dialogical place; ascertaining the value of memory and historical dialogue when it comes to building places.