Aaron Teves

Aaron is originally from the island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. Aaron will earn his Bachelors of Architecture in the class of 2020, through his interests follow many types of art-making and research: being a concentrator in Nature-Culture and Sustainability, and having a crucial interest in history and materiality across his work. Aaron’s five years at RISD have then taken him far beyond Providence; with a semester studying printmaking and photography in Rome in the European Honors Program; as well as architectural research trips to Seoul, South Korea and Lisbon, Portugal. Most recently, Aaron’s thesis provides an alternative narrative to the disciplinary role of craft, repositioning the practice of construction and the architectural detail as works of the hand.

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The Archijig, or: A Manual for a New Craft Collective (1)

Wood, hardware

"The Primitive Jig"—The jig can be defined as either an apparatus to hold or guide a piece of work, a system of representation, a logic for organization, or the detail of an assembly. This new typology—existing between tool, work, and methodology—reframes key ambitions of the Architect, engaging between design and making.

The Archijig, or: A Manual for a New Craft Collective (2)

Dimensional lumber, CNC modular details, hardware

"The Backyard Prototype"—A series of modular details, or building jigs were developed for this construction. Like the primitive jigs, they are developed through the most possible hypothetical ways of assembly, and yet after they are produced, even more methods of use are found.

The Archijig, or: A Manual for a New Craft Collective (3)

Animated digital drawing

"Jig House"—This systems imagines the site as a constant working drawing: an exchange of knowledge and skill and openness to revision. Eventually, a possible future shows a complete merge between jigs and architecture, a constantly working and changing piece of built work.

The Archijig, or: A Manual for a New Craft Collective (4)

Animated digital drawing

"The Modular Jig"–These jigs where developed on a grid from the standardized proportions of dimensional lumber, giving them a maximum accessibility, yet also a deliberately vague logic for standardization.

The Archijig, or: A Manual for a New Craft Collective (5)

Animated digital drawing

"The Craftsman's Jig"–Some jigs fall away as their use concludes, others are repurposed, and some remain permanently embedded into the architecture

Between Memory and Modernity (1)

Digital drawing

This project contains the reworking of Seun-Sangga, a kilometer-long mega structure across the heart of Seoul, South Korea; into a new open market and a series of public gathering spaces.

Between Memory and Modernity (2)

Digital drawing

Inspired by the traditional Hanok, these housing prototypes rethink the live/work housing typology, integrating small new structure into the narrow city streets in the surrounding area of Seun-Sangga.

Between Memory and Modernity (3)

Hand-bound book

This is a one of six-edition hand-made book to accompany the research for Between Memory and Modernity: Rethinking/Reworking the Seun-Sangga District

Prints for a Hypothetical Church, No. 2

Intaglio print

24" x 33”

In challenging both classical sacred spaces as well as architectural representation, "Prints for a Hypothetical Church" is a series of prints demonstrating the the Italian term capriccio, referring to a painting or other work of art representing a fantasy or a mixture of real and imaginary features and forms.

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