A project by Charles Davis, assistant professor of architectural history and criticism, and students of the School of Architecture will be part of the echo Art Fair, a juried fine art and design exposition in Buffalo, N.Y.
The pieces “Carpenter Brownstone” and “Thespian Brownstone” will comprise one of four installations in the “Light Industry” Architecture Section of the exposition.
“Carpenter Brownstone” and “Thespian Brownstone” are two in a series of totems, constructions that operate between the scales of a model, furniture and a full-scale habitable space. Each refers to the “light industry” found adaptations and shifts in language embodied in utopian architectural spaces that draw inspiration from the writings of African-American poets June Jordan, Amiri Baraka and Angela Davis.
Students Emily Clodfelter, Phillip Broszkiewicz and Glen Watson worked with Davis.
The echo Art Fair runs May 13-15.