Jodi La Coe, R.A.

Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center

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WAAC history

November 9, 2019by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

The Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center (WAAC) of Virginia Tech inhabits the former Lee School for Girls on Prince Street between the north–south branches of Route 1. This sixteen room high school […]

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Partiturskizze zu einer mechanischen Exzentrik

April 15, 2019by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

Alongside my dissertation, I have been working on a physical model in which to project my digital animation of the Partiturskizze zu einer mechanischen Exzentrik (Score-sketch for a Mechanical Eccentric, 1924) […]

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Eccentrism

April 14, 2019by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

An Exzentrik (eccentric) is a theatrical performance employing an exaggerated form of comedy capable of lowering the audience’s psychophysical barriers with uproarious laughter, opening them to new ideas. According to a […]

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Tesla Sparks

October 25, 2018by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

On March 13, 1895, according to The New York Times, physicist Тесла Никола (Nikola Tesla) was grief-stricken when his laboratory on Fifth Avenue in New York City was consumed by […]

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Zero Point

March 27, 2018by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

In his lecture, “Raum und Zeit” (Space and Time) delivered at the 80th Meeting of the Natural Scientists in Cologne on September 21, 1908, German mathematician Hermann Minkowski developed his […]

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Lichtrequisit

January 20, 2018by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

As Oliver Botar has demonstrated in his Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts, the Lichtrequisit was not conceived to be viewed as a sculpture in itself. It was […]

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Prototype

January 14, 2018by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

In 1937, the Association of Arts and Industries invited László Moholy–Nagy to develop and direct a school of design and architecture in Chicago based upon the Bauhaus model of an […]

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Prima Materia

January 9, 2018by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

According to Plato, the four material elements were derived from a common source or prima materia (first matter), associated with chaos, which alchemists later assigned to the first element used […]

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Color–Light–Plays

January 7, 2018by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

While a student at the Bauhaus, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack developed equipment to produce experiments with Farblichtspiele (Color-Light-Plays, c. 1924) on continuous film. In Malerei Photographie Film (Painting, Photography, Film, 1925), Bauhaus […]

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Views of the Tesseract

December 30, 2017by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

In his treatise on The Fourth Dimension (1904), British mathematician Charles Hinton demonstrated how three-dimensional representations do not adequately represent all of the elements of matter, only its three spatial coordinates, […]

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