Centennial Chromograph

Centennial Chromagraph is a life-size representationof the history of the Universityof Minnesota School of Architecture. Theproject is an exercise in data spatialization:using computational design tools to generateformal and spatial constructions with largequantities of data—in this case, informationcollected over the School’s 100-year history.Centennial Chromagraph, constructedas a centerpiece for the School’s Centennialcelebration, questions the medium of thearchitectural installation by embracing anaesthetic tension between didactic representationand atmospheric experience, bothconveying information as a timeline and producingabstract effects of light and color. Inthis regard, Centennial Chromagraph resistseither quantitative or qualitative readings andinstead oscillates between the two.

Volume Editors
Robert Corser & Sharon Haar

ISBN
978-1-944214-02-9