I moved to New York shortly after graduating from architecture school in 2014. Although I’ve been practicing architecture in the city since then, my first love has always been artisanal arts like beadwork, crocheting, and sewing. Even my thesis covered the connection between fashion and architecture - a bond that have been intrinsically linked since the creation of shelter itself. I started experimenting with more 3D forms of beadwork after studying the work of famed futurist architect Buckminster Fuller. However, even his work was derived from a natural order of geometry that have been present in African beadwork, textiles, and vernacular architecture. I hope to show that near-computational precision can be achieved by even the human hand.

Ashley Marshall