UTS architecture opens 'Drawing Infrastructure' exhibition, curated by studioplusthree
This year studioplusthree directors Julin Ang and Simon Rochowski have been teaching architecture at UTS as part of the third-year design studio ‘The Temples of the Periphery’, coordinated by Guillermo Fernandez-Abazcal. We were invited to curate an exhibition of student work, selecting projects from our students and from across the year.
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This exhibition samples moments within infrastructural proposals from students of ‘The Temples of the Periphery’, last semester’s third year design studio. Through a rigorous process of drawing, testing and speculating, the studio analysed historical infrastructural monuments and their strategies, bringing this thinking to specific suburban sites in Sydney’s periphery. The studio challenged students to generate new civic strategies responding to the banality of suburbia, embracing both science and culture - the systemic, the technical and the monumental.
Echoing the initial methodology of employing drawing as an analytical tool, the outcomes are presented as a culmination of our analytical thinking; expanding drawings to images and moments expressing the life of these new infrastructural systems. Within the design studio, Wasted Opportunities: Interrupting the Logic of the Metropolis – run by Julin Ang and Simon Rochowski of studioplusthree - imagines how infrastructure itself might be a catalyst for previously unforeseen possibilities in the social realm of the city’s periphery.
The exhibition features selected work from Wasted Opportunities, complemented by works of other studios focusing on infrastructure’s monumentality, power and politics, and weird harmony. This studio was coordinated by Guillermo Fernandez-Abascal. The drawings presented are from the tutorials: Wasted Opportunities tutored by Simon Rochowski and Julin Ang (studioplusthree), Weird Harmony tutored by Jack Gillbanks and Eric Ye, Powerstructures tutored by Isaac Harrison and Tiffany Liew, Hub in Hell tutored by Miguel Rodriguez-Casellas, and Catalytic Monuments tutored by Stephanie Brancatisano and James Cristallo.
Opens Monday 23rd September - 18.30
UTS Building 6 DAB (Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building) - Level 5
Photographs by Hamish McIntosh for UTS
