Michael Webster Studio
  • Michael Webster
  • Projects
    • Crystal Scaffold
    • Set-ups
    • Monument to the Sea
    • Dropped
    • Floor Extrusion
    • Ex Nihilo
    • Ghosts
    • Where the City Has Memory
    • Transpose
    • Scars
    • Edge of a Border
    • Back To The Future
  • Teaching
  • Contact&Bio

Ex Nihilo

2012, thesis exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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An often told Chicago narrative is one of singular architects creating visionary plans for the city. I wanted to engage this idea of architect as visionary, but to reverse its course, and take the past as our subject. After finding unusual ruins buried within a forest preserve in the south suburbs, I asked 6 Chicago architects to draw their interpretation of the site's past. These drawings envision the site in a variety of ways, raising questions of how form and function are entwined and histories are constructed.
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  • Michael Webster
  • Projects
    • Crystal Scaffold
    • Set-ups
    • Monument to the Sea
    • Dropped
    • Floor Extrusion
    • Ex Nihilo
    • Ghosts
    • Where the City Has Memory
    • Transpose
    • Scars
    • Edge of a Border
    • Back To The Future
  • Teaching
  • Contact&Bio