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Dieste Journal is a collection of student work from the 2020 Eladio Dieste Building Shop in the Department of Architecture (DoArch) at South Dakota State University. Dieste Building Shop is a history seminar and hands-on construction technology class about the labor conditions of Dieste’s structural innovations in Cerámica Armada.

 

In Spring 2020, three teams of five students set out to build three, large-scale (1:20), physical models of the Encofrados (formwork) used to construct the Gaussian Vaults of three structures designed by Dieste: a Church, Silo, and Warehouse. The physical models are based on the virtual models (link) constructed by students in 2019 and images from the Dieste and Montañez Archive. In response to COVID-19 pandemic, students made their Dieste Journals the primary site of their work for the reminder of the semester.

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01. Church: Iglesia del Cristo Obrero. Atlántida, Uruguay. 1958-60

02. Silo: CADYL Horizontal Silo. Young, Uruguay. 1976-78

03. Warehouse: Depósito Julio Herrera y Obes. 1977-79

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Church
Silo
Warehouse

Department of Architecture, DoArch

South Dakota State University

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Eladio Dieste Building Shop 2020 (link)

Labor Atlas (link)

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Faculty

Federico Garcia Lammers

federico@lab-or.com

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Student Teams

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Church

Andrew Kocer

Brayden Nielsen

Jocelyn Rothmeier

David Stewart

Brett Szymanski

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Silo

Brakken Bierl 

Samuel Borr

Stephen Kalenberg

Shyanne Kopfmann

Mahmoud Sadek

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Warehouse

Kate Anderson

Zachary Freeman

Karianna Larson  

Mitch Schlingman

Sydney VanWell

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References

All archive images are from the Dieste and Montañez Archive 

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Texts

*Dieste, Eladio. Architecture and Construction

Dieste Eladio. Awareness of Form

Dieste, Eladio. Art, People, and Technocracy

Garcia Lammers, Federico. Diachronic and Synchronic Labor

Garcia Lammers, Federico. Building the Resistance

Garcia Lammers, Federico. A Network of Precise Errors

Rodriguez, Florencia. Catching the Curve

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*All quotes included in this website are from "Architecture and Construction"

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