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Mira/Look Exhibition, Joseph Krupczynski, Inga Anger, Zachary Smith, Fleur Downey, Tobias Bernecker, Karen Rose, Christopher Velardi, Matthew Emond, Taejun James Kim, Arcangel Santiago Sep 2008

Mira/Look Exhibition, Joseph Krupczynski, Inga Anger, Zachary Smith, Fleur Downey, Tobias Bernecker, Karen Rose, Christopher Velardi, Matthew Emond, Taejun James Kim, Arcangel Santiago

MIRA/LOOK: New Visions for Architecture in Holyoke (2008)

This exhibition produced for the Wistariahurst Museum in Holyoke and displayed in September and October of 2008, highlights community planning and design initiatives that promote cultural expression and community visions for Holyoke. The designs were created by Professor Joseph Krupczynski and students from the Architecture + Design program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.


Architecture+Design 600, Joseph Krupczynski Oct 2007

Architecture+Design 600, Joseph Krupczynski

MIRA/LOOK: New Visions for Architecture in Holyoke (2008)

This studio promotes creative research and conceptually rigorous design methodologies that aim to illuminate, situate, and contest the complex circumstances within which a truly “sustainable” architecture can emerge — an architecture capable of escaping a narrow technological focus, while addressing the broader social and theoretical implications of sustainability. The interplay between site, culture and program is a key focus of the studio. Through critical assessments of a broad range of specific site conditions students develop investigative strategies for responsive architectural interventions that bridge the gap between theory and practice. This semester we will be working on a series of projects …