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		New Typographics University of Minnesota ARCH 5373 Fall 2003 There is a profound analogy between architecture and alphabet. The basis of this relationship, notes Werner Oschelin, is the abstraction of the line as a drawing medium. This abstraction, and the drawing software that supports it, is the focus of the course. Over the semester, students are asked to use typography as a readymade geometry to be reconstructed in AutoCAD, built up in Form*Z, and output with Illustrator. In the end, the primary concerns of the course are to emphasize the indispensability of vector graphics, to offer an argument for abstraction in an architectural culture presently consumed with photorealistic renderings, and to explore how drawing practice continues to be enhanced by new technologies. The image at the right shows the Boolean Intersection of an extruded N and T. It follows from work by J. Abbott Miller, whose Dimensional Typography has been an inspiring text for the course. Other influential work includes J.D. Steingruber's 1773 proposal for a series of palaces based on the letters of the alphabet, the recently published Typotecture, and of course, Steven Holl's Alphabetical City. next