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Karol Kawiaka incorporated the use of Form-Z, an award-winning solid and surface
modeler with an extensive set of 2D/3D form manipulating and sculpting
capabilities, into her Winter Term 2001 architectural design class,
Studio Art 65. The students created detailed 3-D models of art museums
throughout history, including the Altes Museum in Berlin, the Museum of Modern
Art in New York as it was in the year 1940, and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
In the Spring Term 2001, Marlene Heck offered a freshman seminar, Art History 7,
on museum history and design that used the 3-D models of art museums created in
the Winter term to study the physical and ritual spaces of museums and how they
communicate social identities and cultural values.
The instructors intend to draw on the experiences of these two classes to create
an interdisciplinary College Course
using Form-Z to be offered in 2002.
What is Form-Z?
Form-Z is an 3-D modeling program with an extensive set of 2D/3D form
manipulating and sculpting capabilities. It is an effective design tool for
architects, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, animators and
illustrators, industrial and interior designers, and all design fields that deal
with the articulation of 3D spaces and forms. The program has the capability to
realistically render surface materials allowing models to have a very realistic,
almost photographic appearance. The program can be used to create
'walk-throughs' of buildings and landscape designs. Form-Z is complex modeling
tool and, at the same time, new students can use it with ease. It has been used
to model everything from pots and pans to animate feature films including the
Clint Eastwood film "Space Cowboys."
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