Opening reception, Masterworks 2025: Tracing Time
Masterworks is an annual showcase of exemplary graduate student work that intersects a selected research/design topic proposed by a graduate alumnus.
The 2025 exhibition, Masterworks: Tracking Time was curated by Elizabeth Ann Lenny (BAS '19, MArc'21) opens Thursday, May 22, 2025 and features work by:
- Vincent Chuang
- From Earth to Earth to Earth (Joanne Yau and Liyang Zhang)
- Yoon Hur
- Elizabeth Lenny
- Ali Salama
- Madeleine Audrey Sze Mun Wong
- Martha Trivett
- Bianca Weeko Martin
- Yi Chen Zhang
- Hiba Zubairi
Exhibition statement:
How can we approach the research and the creation of architecture and design, not only through immediate encounters, but as something which has a history?
Hannah Arendt defines work as useful objects that are durable because they are a tangible manifestation of experience. In an era of context collapse, and image proliferation, an understanding of context has been lost and work has become abstract, losing its durability. Tracing Time explores how the indexing of time restores the tangibility of work, asking how context, process and history can create meaning.
An index can be understood as a physical trace. It is a phenomenon that speaks of processes that have taken place in time, it indicates. The work included in the exhibition exemplifies trace through the form and shape of trees, adaptive and material reuse, and the examination of changes in landscapes, architectural typologies, iconography, and signage. Tracing Time presents work of a wide variety of scales and themes but is united through the tracing of time and the desire to make context visible. Alongside the seven recently completed master theses, work by four recent alumni is also exhibited.
The Master’s program at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ is not a means to an end but rather a beginning. It is a process of learning about what one is interested in and opening up a world to continue to explore it.
The event in the Riverside Gallery at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ School of Architecture runs from 6:00 - 8:00 pm and includes light refreshments by disko coffee.