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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
Robert Adams, Robert Ferguson, Kristine Miller
Spring 2003
Running in parallel with the photographic project was an extensive cartographic survey of Livingston County. The interest in mapping was inspired by a number of works -- the ANGST: Cartography installation and book by Mojdeh Baratloo and Clifton Balch, James Corner and Alex McLean's Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, and texts by David Turnbull, Denis Wood, and J.B. Harley. I believe that the architectural work which ultimately spun out of the cartographic study substantiates James Corner's argument that mapping is "perhaps the most formative and creative act of any design process, first disclosing and then staging the conditions for the emergence of new realities."
This image is a redrawn version of one of the first maps I encountered during my research. It was originally produced in 1995, the year following the Retsof collapse. It's a viewshed study centered on the proposed site for the new headframe in Hampton Corners. The hatched area marks everywhere within a five-mile radius where the 182-foot headframe would be visible. The purpose of the map was to help investors make the argument that the visual impact of the new mining facility would be slight.
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