OSCAR TUAZON

Oscar Tuazon (born 1975, Tacoma), lives and works in Los Angeles, California, and Oil City, Washington. He received his education from Deep Springs College, California; Whitney ISP, New York, and Cooper Union School of Art / Cooper Union School of Architecture, Architecture/Urban Studies Program, New York.

Oscar Tuazon builds for human beings and their needs. Since graduating from the Whitney ISP in New York in 2003, he has been putting together sculptures that act as prototypes that are researching and reflecting on architecture. What are other ways of living or other ways of solving architecture. What other ways are for architecture to serve us and what other ways are there of surviving that is not at the expense of our surroundings. From his early interest in dome architecture - in particular that of Steve Baer's "Dome Cookbook", as well as the experience of having grown up in such an architecture – to gigantic sculptures filling and maxing out museum architecture, to his Water School and a renewed sensitivy to site and natural surroundings, Tuazon concerns himself with raising awareness and presenting alternatives: rethinking the tools and equipment with which we build, the construction techniques we employ, the conversations and the ambitions we have for building, habitating and being part of a landscape without ruining it.

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