Rewrite the Past to Project the Future
Nicole Marple (BS Arch ’11)
Nicole Marple joined Thomas Phifer and Partners in 2015. Nicole is currently working on a cultural and residential project in Dallas, Texas. She earned a BS in Architecture from the University at Buffalo and a Master of Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she was both an American Institute of Architects Henry Adams Gold Medalist and Thesis Design Award recipient. During her degree at the Rhode Island School of Design, she studied in Serbia and Romania on a research travel grant. She is a Registered Architect in New York State.
This is a series of work that sets out to recreate a river boat tour down the Buffalo River. Digitally staged sets were built to capture each moment taken in a collected series of photos found on Facebook. It can be assumed that these photographs are how people want to remember and share the place. The whole site was then staged and rebuilt through the perspective of each photo; everything out of this vanish point was erased. Living in a world designed for Instagram, the project asks, “is what appears in the viewpoint of the camera all that needs to physically exist?”
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