Exhibits

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Exhibition ‘5M3’ presents the outcome of a summer design studio led by Đorđe Bulajić and Matija Pogorilić (BUMP Studio) at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, The City College of New York, and supported by the Capacity Initiative.

Over the course of five weeks, 20 first- through fifth-year students developed four full-scale installations, each conceived, designed, and constructed within a single week. Working with exactly the same set of 5,000 floral foam blocks (7.8″×3.5″×2.4″), each installation explored a distinct methodological approach while operating within an identical material and spatial constraint. The studio treated drawing and ‘construction’ not as sequential stages but as a single, continuous act of thought. Drawings, diagrams, and 1:12 scale models were pursued alongside full-scale building, each feeding back into the other, offering a study of how architectural ideas are tested, transformed, and translated across different scales of representation and construction. The fourth and final installation, presented in the exhibition, brings together the accumulated experiments of the previous three full-scale installations – from sculpture and interior to a collective 20 × 5-meter megastructure – into a three-dimensional assemblage that synthesizes the formal, spatial, and organizational questions developed throughout the studio.

The exhibition opens July 22, 3pm, in Rooms 217–218 at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture and remains on view through August 13, Monday–Thursday, 8am–8pm (closed Fridays and weekends). Visitors are kindly asked to register at the reception desk.

Participating students: Abigail Bangari, Emily Chen, Joshua Tolbert, Yinglan Lao, Noah Lettrick, Cynthia Luna-Marcelino, Saul Martinez, Eliana Saquicili, Madelyn Sow, Taz Sultan, Amy Taveras, Le Ngu Phuc Xuan Hoa Tran, Jeshua Nunez, Christine Pang, FNU Rahima, Kavindya Widanagama, Howie Wong, Zi Leng Wong, Xiang Zhuang, and Zamia Zannat.

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