Email #39 - Interior Space Transformed

How do rooms form out of "nothingness?"

That was my initial curiosity when I first started photographing interior building construction ten years ago.

In simple terms: first there is a big empty space defined by the building structure itself (top photo). Then suddenly, within a day or two, an endoskeleton of wall studs crystallizes and fills that space, as shown here on the first floor of the South Wing (bottom photo).

On the left is the new CM space. On the right are new offices for the architecture faculty. In the next email, we'll go further in.

John Stamets
Oct. 24, 2006

See also #40, #41, #46 and #47