Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Trace Gainey
Concurrent Constructions is a reflection on a first-year architecture project in which the craft, composition, and narratives of Gee’s Bend quilts were centered as a link between analog and digital making. The first-year curriculum in this B.Arch program includes a design studio and a design communication lab. Historically, the studio curriculum is entirely analog, meanwhile the students are learning digital design programs at the same time in the design communication lab. This project sought to create a bridge between the courses, which would introduce tectonic and stereotomic making through analog and digital means. Beginning the project with analysis of the quilts expands the typical notions of craft and making, building a dialogue that spans analog and digital making.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.113.66
Volume Editors
Sara Jensen Carr & Rubén García Rubio
ISBN
978-1-944214-48-7
