DANIEL CRYER
*star library* 1438 nw 46th street seattle, wa 98107 + ten-day third-year student competition
to wander in to look up to think in mind ,, stars are silent stars are bright stars give off their dying light “
recognition: competition first prize winner
board | graphite and colored pencil on 24�x36� tagboard
[star library] - 01
drawings | graphite on trace paper
[room in a garden] - 02
room in a garden an anonymous 36’ x 42’ plot + third-year first semester project
A Factory is a Room made of bricks A Factory has a Window high up on the wall A Factory has a Roof with razor-sharp ridges A Factory has a Smokestack venting a furnace A Garden holds the Room allowing its foundations A Garden has a Path branching from the middle A Garden has a Pool of collected rain water A Garden has a Well to earth’s fresh spring A Window along a Path A Roof reflected in a Pool A Smokestack rising over a Well A Room in a Garden
[room in a garden] - 02
drawing | graphite on 18”x24” tagboard
sculptor’s studio + apartment duckpond | virginia tech campus blacksburg, va + second-year first semester project
sculptor, oh sculptor, hey! back from thy darkness emerge to the graded light; you work for us now
drawing | graphite on 18”x24” tagboard
[sculptor’s studio + residence] - 03
sketch | ink and colored pencil on paper
drawing | graphite on 24”x36” tagboard
[public library] - 04
public library newcastle, va + third-year second semester project
newcastle, virginia is a town of 153 and has a lot of bricks and a big courthouse with a red metal roof
[public library] - 04
golf course tower municipal golf course blacksburg, va + ten-day fourth-year project
in the nightmare I, I came upon a tower, no — two towers on a hill
mixed medias | graphite on vellum, digital rendering
virginia society american institute of architects annual prize competition bridge over i-664 newport news, virginia + three-day school-wide competition
maybe they will appreciate us when we are BIG
recognition: virginia tech - school finalist
board | autocad and colored pencil on 24�x36� tagboard
[golf course tower + bridge over i-664] - 05 + 06
[thesis : tower to the moon] - 07
thesis tower to the moon the shortest distance at a certain time between the earth and the moon Architecture is beyond the concerns of cost-effective economics, efficient engineering, and legal liability. Architecture’s autonomy as a distinct pursuit is protected by architecture’s inherent absurdity—the tumultuous relationship between need and want that characterizes design. When the absurdity of architecture is ultimately answerable to transcendent truth about human experience, it is valuable to us. But, take away or relativize this truth, and architecture is either consumed by the mechanisms of pure engineering, economics, and liability or it exhausts itself in a self-destructive proliferation of nonsensical proposals and projects. A tower to the moon is here proposed as one possible outcome of such architectural proliferation. The tower to the moon is an incremental accumulation of seemingly infinite architectural projects covering the earth, stacked layer upon layer, that eventually collides with the moon, rendering the project complete. The tower to the moon allows architecture the opportunity to express itself expansively by discretely addressing every human problem and circumstance—past, present, and future, real or imagined—equally until its mission is coincidentally accomplished. The nine tower to the moon projects represented here exhibit the architectural tension between the valuably absurd architecture and the unrecognizable nonsense of the unconstrained proliferation of architecture. recognition: pella thesis prize - top four finalist
[thesis : tower to the moon] - 07
[europe travel] - 08
europe travel program switzerland, germany, austria, slovenia, italy, great britain, netherlands, france, spain + seventy-day architecture study abroad
sketches | ink and colored pencil on paper
[europe travel] - 08
selected sketchbook pages | ink, colored pencil, collage on paper
selected photos | color film prints
[sketchbooks + 35mm film photographs] - 09 + 10
2018