Discipline: Architecture – design

Erik Herrmann

Discipline: Architecture – design
Region: Columbus, OH
MacDowell Fellowships: 2019

Erik Herrmann is an assistant professor of architecture at the Knowlton School and co-director of Outpost Office. He was the 2016-2017 Walter B. Sanders Fellow in Architecture at the University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. In 2015, Herrmann was a German Chancellor’s Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) at the University of Stuttgart.

Herrmann developed color studies and digital design experiments for an upcoming show at the Wedge Gallery in Los Angeles while at MacDowell. This new work expands on previous digital design experiments Erik produced as the 2016-2017 Walter B. Sanders Fellow at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and as a 2014/2015 Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Studios

Wood

Erik Herrmann worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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