Suspended Cardboard Domes with Giant Squid, 2010
CNC Cut Cardboard and Hot Glue
14' Diameter
Cardboard Beam with Giant Squid, 2009
Laser Cut Cardboard and Hot Glue
16' Height x 31' Length x 14' Width
Attempting an expansion in architectural Eclecticism, I endeavored to explore and revel in the expression of patterned surfaces and dare I say, Romanticism shunned by purely performative architecture. In doing so, I have allowed and made space for narrative to exist, to construct a Spatial Graffiti. In attempting to reach such ends, I chose the lowliest of materials, cardboard, to extract an ephemeral existence. With the application of cut cardboard layers, I have created a place where pattern and decoration can thrive in Architecture and not be immediately cast aside as purely historicism, to counteract the banal.
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I'm currently kind of all over the place right now working on my cardboard sculpture creations. I have recently graduated from Cranbrook Academy of Art with a Master of Architecture. I have also been an invited architecture critic to studio reviews at the University of Michigan and at Iowa State University (where I received my Bachelor of Architecture). Otherwise I keep busy looking and building...You can contact me by email at wil at this domain.