Rhythms of Texas: Institute of Texan Cultures
H.I. Feldman Nominee
Advanced Design Studio with Michael Imber and George Knight
H.I. Feldman Nominee
Advanced Design Studio with Michael Imber and George Knight
Texas culture is comprised of a diverse set of values, beliefs, languages, practices and artifacts of society. This project looks to the rhythms within the many genres of Texas music as a lens through which the diversified practices of various cultures manifest themselves by means of cultural diffusion, confluence, conflict and contradiction. Music in Texas reveals cultural confluence and conflict across urban and rural geographies, race, class and ethnicity. The aim is to spatially and visually manifest various rhythms of Texas music in a way that conveys a sense of multiplicity and cultural pluralism.
Following an analysis of the Spanish mission typology - an origin point of both the confluence and conflict of cultures in Texas - the project aims to reappropriate the mission typology by spatializing the rhythms and proportions of Texas music genres. The design and program of the Institute of Texas Cultures incites a culturally pluralist environment to preserve and transmit the cultural heritage of Texas while simultaneously encouraging the evolution of Texas culture by means of innovation and discovery.
Following an analysis of the Spanish mission typology - an origin point of both the confluence and conflict of cultures in Texas - the project aims to reappropriate the mission typology by spatializing the rhythms and proportions of Texas music genres. The design and program of the Institute of Texas Cultures incites a culturally pluralist environment to preserve and transmit the cultural heritage of Texas while simultaneously encouraging the evolution of Texas culture by means of innovation and discovery.
