Sept. 20th - Art Show

Exhibiting Artist Tian Hsu is an undergraduate student in Yale College majoring in Architecture and Mechanical Engineering. 

This series of works are inspired by her travels to Pompeii and Herculaneum in Naples, as well as her travels to the Acropolis and the Ancient Agora in Athens this summer. Through collaging various styles of architecture across time and space.

Internal Conflict:

What vestiges am I made of?

Where in the architecture timeline do I fall?

Are all the ideas in my mind from the architecture that has come before me?

Have I ever thought of something new?

Mies van der Rohe once said “Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”

How can I even begin to understand my will if I do not know what epoch I am in?

Tian's "Mirage of Vestiges" is a series of observational sketches of my time in Athens this summer and an exploration of the meaning of classical architecture in modern-day.