Great work finishing the Archive Project!

Please upload your in-process Landscape, Environment, and Installation Project to the blog before midnight on Sunday Oct. 20th. Your in-process work will be graded and will be worth 25% of your total grade for the project.

Give feedback to at least two projects before our class on Tuesday. On Tuesday I have invited Claire Wood to give you feedback on your 3rd project. Claire is a Canadian Architect, currently working in Brooklyn, who occasional makes forays into installation art. Check out her portfolio at http://clairewood.ca

2013. 10 min. Installation video for 3 projectors. By Claire Wood and Gabriel Fries-Briggs


It has been observed that city trees grow more quickly and robustly than their forest-dwelling cousins. The abundance of airborne carbon dioxide in urban environments is absorbed and stored by our arboreal architectures and, in effect, act as a recording device for the city's changing environment. When, where, and which trees were planted has always been directed by the dominant theories of modern urban life and by who ruled the streets. In this way, like the study of changing architectural styles, a tree in the city is a document of the actions of human inhabitation. Collected portraits of Dresden trees tell a story about the city. Over the course, of a week we gathered tree-portraits, both through our own research and with help from participants' documents and stories. Amassed in a video installation, the collection of portraits aggregated to make a new forest for the city of Dresden.