Room With Views

A graduate workshop at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, where students install window drawings to compose imagined adjacencies, instructed in 2019

Room with Views studies the elusive definition of a window. The installation composes imagined adjacencies within a physical space that is only punctured by two doors. Drawings negotiate perceived depth and effects of transparency and reflection. They communicate practical and poetic qualities of a window. Students each define the window as a mirror, a hole, a puddle of water, a shifting image, an opening for sound and smell...

Image Credit: Abigail Chang

Featured Student Work: Andrew Huss, Ron Ristow, Michelle Auyeung, Mallory Rabeneck, Wiktoria Debicki, Miriam Bermeo, Andrew Hunt

Contributors: University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture students led by Abigail Chang