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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
Spring 2002
I started Viva with the idea that a student-run architecture journal could be passed on each semester, reinvented by subsequent editors. The inaugural issue took 'currency' as its theme, in part to mark the significance of the physical release of the Euro (it had already been in digital circulation for two years). I still feel that the genericized architecture represented on Euro bills remains under-interpreted, and I saw this as an opportunity to echo the sentiments expressed by Walter Benjamin:
A descriptive analysis of bank notes is needed. The unlimited satirical force of such a book would be equaled only by its objectivity. For nowhere more naively than in these documents does capitalism display itself in solemn earnest. The innocent cupids frolicking about numbers, the goddesses holding tablets of the law, the stalwart heroes sheathing their swords before monetary units, are a world of their own: ornamenting the facade of hell.
Viva: Currency was printed in an edition of 100 copies and was available at various locations, including Form Zero books in Los Angeles. An online version is available as well.
Viva was successfully passed down to Tom Parent and Cheryl Wilgren-Clyne. A fourth issue remains uncertain.
