Florencia Pita & Co: Curves & Lines

(Hardback)

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This book presents a collection of ideas, organized as a visual assemblage of drawings, models, and buildings. Printed in full color, the book combines built work with conceptual studies. A focus on drawings is a the core of this work.

One might ask what is the role of a book in todays world of digital access, where the easy availability of information offsets the need for the printed medium. And the answer might just be that books are made of paper pages, with texture, and surface finish, things that digital screens do not possess. But also to borrow potentials from the digital, such as the possibility to zoom in and zoom out, to rotate, and pan.

All these things can also be done in a book, as we can allow for each page to be an interface to the space of a drawing. This notion is that the endless grid that is ubiquitous to any design software, where multiple design iterations that float beyond gravity, can be grounded on the surface of a page while maintaining the allure of dynamic design processes.

Author Bio

Florencia Pita is the principal of the Florencia Pita graduated in 1998 from the National University of Rosario in Argentina, with a licensure degree. In 1999 she was awarded the 2000 Fulbright-Fondo Nacional de las Artes Scholarship to pursue studies at Columbia University and in 2001 she received her Master's Degree from the MSAAD Program at Columbia University. Her independent projects have been part of several museum collections, such as MoMA, MAK Vienna, and the Art Institute of Chicago, FRAC Center in France, among others, and have been recognized through several publications and awards. In 2016 she was featured in the U.S. Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. Pita has been a guest professor at architecture schools throughout the United states and Europe, in 2018 she was the Louis I. Khan Visiting Assistant Professor of Architectural Design at Yale's School of Architecture and in 2019 she was Visiting Faculty at Princeton University School of Architecture. She currently teaches Design Studios and Visual Studies courses at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles and since 2016 she holds a Visiting Professorship appointment at the University of Pennsylvania's Weitzman School of Design.