Critical Sections is a database-driven drawing project that explores the relationships between Los Angeles residential architecture and cinematic space. A list of eight "prototype" houses and films have been selected and the narrative and aesthetic space of these works has been combined. This superimposition has yielded a matrix of associations through which to catalog and critique notions of domesticity over the 20th century in Los Angeles.

This project will be published in Vectors, The Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular this fall in 2010. The work is being produced in collaboration with the creative and technical expertise of Erik Loyer and under the guidance of Steve Anderson.

Pictured above are Buster Keaton's misconstructed home in One Week and the Gehry House in Santa Monica - what can we learn from comparing the mythologies surrounding these structures? This is the territory for investigation in Critical Sections.

I have added a brief preview photoset of this project to my flickr account.

Sadly this project is in pre-release purgatory. It has been done for over a year and I have no information when it will be formally launched. I hope it sees the light of day this fall. I have made some tentative moves to begin a follow-up to Critical Sections - stay tuned for more news on that in 2014.