Newsletter of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University
In a series of related projects, students enrolled this fall in the Principles of Visualization III class got a chance to loose their imaginations, visualizing three pre-industrial tribal societies who dwell in structures erected on the face of steep cliffs along the River Styx.
Drawing from predefined characteristics of the three imagined tribes sharing a common heritage, the students were tasked to design scale models of the cliff dwellings that match the each tribe’s attributes.
In a follow-up exercise borrowed from the culture of the Surma and Mursi tribes in East Africa's Omo Valley, the students engaged in a face-painting ritual, using natural pigments and even fruits, vegetables, leaves and grasses. The individual designs, representing artistic expressions of mood characteristic to one of the three tribal cultures, were then photographed for exhibition.
Participating in the project were three sections of VIST 205 students under the direction of instructors Terry Larsen, Christine Liu and Julie Rogers.
— Posted: Dec. 8, 2010 —
Contact: Phillip Rollfing, prollfing@archone.tamu.edu or 979.458.0442.
