ALEX TERZICH terzich@gmail.com				PORTFOLIO | RESUME | MAPS
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UNDERGRADUATE Les Heures Claires Minneapolis Light Rail Transit Object-Abject GRADUATE One Fold Hot Pink Finnish Embassy Branded Office Space Subjected Pythagoragraph Meganamorphosis World Trade Center Earle Brown Elementary School Andrew Zago Drawing Workshop THESIS Introduction Pictures Maps Shadows Exhibition COMPETITION First Step Housing TEACHING Escaping Flatland Map City New Typographics Three-Dimensional Tiles PUBLICATIONS LNDMRK Patti Viva: Currency ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING		Finnish Embassy Precedent Study and Formal Analysis Spring 2001 (Cynthia Jara) The Finnish Embassy in Washington, D.C. was designed by Heikkinen-Komonen Architects and completed in 1994. The highly regulated form of the building initiated a formal study in relation to its larger urban context. This city plan shows initial thinking about the interplay of different urban types in Washington. The underlay is a 1791 plan by Pierre Charles L'Enfant, showing the organic form of the Potomac River and the dramatic Baroque composition of the street and block pattern. The overlay recalls Thomas Jefferson's 1791 plan for Washington -- a regular grid that could be extended infinitely. This preliminary study set up much of the analysis of the Finnish Embassy, especially the tension between local conditions and universal solutions. next