archifreese with Brian Berk

Stoop Shapes Thick & Thin, May, 2018

A study in association and perception of the typical differences of figure face and features. Each morsel is a play on domestic typologie from the streetcar city Rowhome expansion era in American urban development. This period is sparked and marked by great leaps forward in technology, a shift in immigration, and the emergence of new laws and agencies at the federal level ensuring an American standard on which the 'American dream' is marketed to invest in and aspire by government, banks, retailers and developer., The dream becomes a capitalist consumer economic engine for cities to rely onfor growth through speculation and investment. The studies geometric language is loosely associated with the Rowhome, and the machine made ornamental geometry motifs on cornices, bannisters balustrades, mantels, wallpapers and fabric that would have adorned the Rowhome.