Baskets and Architecture: Ritualistic Making and Collective Design. (July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Aranda, Benjamin; Lasch, Chris
• Other Names: Tibbits Skylar guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 87:Number 4(2017)
• Page Start: 66
• Page End: 73
• Publication Date: 2017-07
• Subjects: Aranda\Lasch and Terrol Dew Johnson -- 'Meeting the Clouds Halfway' -- Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) -- Tucson -- Arizona -- Native American craft -- Artists Space gallery -- New York -- 'Baskets: Rules of Exchange' -- Tohono O'odham; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2197
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract : Is algorithmic design and fabrication really a new thing? Not according to Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch, co‐founders of New York and Tucson‐based design studio Aranda\Lasch. Through over a decade of collaborations with a Native American basket weaver, they have observed clear parallels between age‐old craft forms and contemporary architectural processes. Here they give their account of the outcomes of these collaborations to date, including an ongoing project for sophisticated collective construction to serve indigenous communities.