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News
December 2012: Empty Pavilion is featured on Archinect, A/N Blog, mocoloco, suckerPUNCH, Architizer and more.
November 2012: Radical Railbanking and Scenarios for Detroit is one of two projects included in American Cities 2.5 at the McGill University School of Architecture. The exhibition features work by McLain Clutter and Mark Linder. Thanks to Aaron Sprecher for the invitation.
November 2012: The Empty Pavilion opens in Detroit.
September 2012: McLain Clutter presents Radical Railbanking at the MCA in …
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City / School
Summer 2011
Entry for the 2011 Cleveland Competition
Assisted by Bryan Alcorn and Katie Baldwin
City/School is miniature city within the city of Cleveland, and a new home for Campus International School. The scheme imagines a future student body for CIS of 1500 students, and locates the school within a bustling enclave of urban activity. The intent is to integrate the diversity and culture of urban life into the educational experience, while stimulating the surrounding city through the school’s presence. …
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Empty Pavilion
November 2012
The Empty Pavilion is a meditation on Detroit’s evacuated urban context and an experiment in architecture’s ability to activate a latent public in the city. The project aspires to distribute just enough material across empty space – an element Detroit has in excess – to make that space legible and promote interaction. From a distance, the project engages the onlooker in a visual game of fleeting figuration. The pavilion is conceived as a collection of architectural figures drawn-in-space. …
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Scenarios for Detroit
Summer 2012
Assisted by Se Hee Kim
The following scenarios for Detroit are based on an incomplete process of interpreting the Radical Railbanking zoning map.
Dequindre Cut
The Dequindre Cut is a portion of inactive railway that has been partially converted to a pedestrian path. Recessed thirty feet below the surrounding city, the Cut surfaces north of Gratiot Avenue, where rail once serviced the wholesale and meatpacking industry at Eastern Market. Despite the surrounding blight, Eastern Market thrives as a …
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Convention Center
Spring, 2001
In most American cities, the paradigm of the urban environment as the material index of social collectives has lost its validity. Today, it has become cliché to note that communities are more convincingly defined around one’s prime-time television habits than any architecturally conceived sense of place or belonging. Even the notion that the city is the center for economic exchange and trade has quickly lost ground to technologically enabled exchanges. Beyond the glaring urban exceptions within the United …