Joachim Perez has been a faculty member at the UMSoA since 2009. His research focuses on architecture as a temporary moment through nomadic installations, sustainability through urban agriculture, and new forms of alternative practice. Over the course of eight years, Perez has held various responsibilities at the school such as the co-development of the alumni studio, exhibitions coordinator, and more recently coordinating efforts for the school’s accreditation. Along with teaching, Perez is executive director of the architecture based non-profit, DawnTown: a platform to conduct research through the use of design competitions and temporary installations. Perez is the winner of the Brian & Myrna Canin Fellowship, a 2010 Knight Arts Challenge grant, a 2012 NCARB Prize for Writing, Part Time Faculty of the Year award, and several micro art grants from the Miami Downtown Development Authority.

Joachim Perez

Part Time Lecturer

Sneak Peek 1

Sneak PeekIn 1435 Renaissance architect Leon Batista Alberti developed the “camera obscura” which allowed him to decipher the science of linear perspective. Painted glass scenes were placed within a box, with a calculated distance between each image. A small view port was created on the exterior of the box, giving the viewer the ability to exaggerate vanishing points and lines.

Years later this system was adopted by traveling performers who would create small show pieces inside larger boxes, charging patrons to view this phenomenon. It was here that the term “peep show” was conceived and a new form of entertainment was born. With different cultures came a variety of interpretations of this practice. However, it was not long until this form of amusement became corrupted with adult explicit themes. In modern times, this terminology carries a voyeuristic and vulgar connotation as it is commonly associated with pornography.

Despite the origin of its evolution, the constant in the performance remains the same: entertainment, in a controlled setting, with a carefully constructed view. Our proposal, Sneak Peek, inverts the traditional practice of the peep show by putting the watcher on display, in a controlled environment, while expanding what is being viewed.

Writing has played a large component in my career. In 2012 I received an NCARB Prize for the development of a course titled “Writing in Architecture as a Professional Endevour”. The course led to a small publication of critical analysis on global issues that affected Miami. I have also contributed regularly as a guest writer on the architecture blog Archinect.

Dawntown Miami is a non-profit architecture platform in Miami that promotes the architecture of Miami through inventive and creative programming. Appointed as Executive Director in 2010, I have run a multitude of design competitions centered around specific issues within Miami: blighted spaces, historic preservation, and transportation have been some of those themes. DawnTown has solicited proposals from around the world, and published in ArchDaily, The Huffington Post, Wettbewerbe Aktuell, Dwell, and more locally, The Miami Herald and Biscayne Times. The competition played a large role in attracting media attention to the restoration efforts of the Miami Marine Stadium. After receiving a $150,000.00 Knight Arts Grant, we initatied a design build competition to highlight the work of young architecture firms, and have them showcase their talents in Miami. The first two events were done in collaboration with HistoryMiami with the third being a landscape driven project with the support of Metro 1 Properties in Wynwood. Images are from proposals, competition posters, articles, an exhibition recaping our first four years, and the opening night reception for our first design build competition

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Concept Narrative

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Sneak Peek 2

Voyeurism

The form of the box is derived from the original proportions of a peep show booth. The booth is a square plan with a door or curtain for privacy. Once inside, there is a variation of the interior; where a viewer can fi nd a seat or stool, and there is often machinery where patrons can deposit money to start the show.

Methodically layering and rotating the original plan, the new Viewing Box is created. This systematic process preserves the initial proportions of the view box, while incorporating complex geometry.

The fi nal shape is a combination of the two, where an abstracted exterior shell is created to house a typical square plan.

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Disassembly Instructions:Field paint will eventually fade or wash out due to rain.

Huge Balls

Sneak Peek:Huge Balls is the largest art piece on the site, and the visitor will need to alter their perspective to engage it. A large orange circle will be inscribed into the grasslands area using fi eld paint, similar to what is used on sports fi elds or by surveyors. A QR code will be stenciled into the grass in white, and at a larger size. Visitors will interact with each other as well as the environment to capture the code.

Assembly Instructions:Using the wood shims and rope, a circle is formed on the grass with a 20’ diameter. The paint is then applied to the grass with the QR stencil applied last in white.

Materials: Cans of orange aerosol, fi eld marking paint, rope, wood shims

Grasslands

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Conceptualism

The visitor’s role and perspective in Sneak Peek will be inverted here.

The viewing box has been strategically placed to view the other locations connected with the installation. From here the visitor becomes the watcher, secretly viewing others patrons as they engage with the environment and artwork.

The small accommodations inside the box allow for just one person at a time to enter, making them extremely private. This reinforces the watcher as a voyeur in the landscape, with the viewing box as his/her own personal theater. Multiple view ports strategically allow a vast number of performances occurring around them to be visualized. The voyeur will witness the visitors become part of the art that has brought them to the site.

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Sneak Peek is a design installation for The Field Constructs design competition located outside of Austin, Texas. The brief calls for an installation that focuses on the vast expanse of the open park and how people can interact with it. The premise of this installation comes from the “Camera Obscura” developed from Alberti and it’s later degredation by it’s 20th century counterpart, the Peep Show. This installation creates several foreign objects in the field of park, while secretly hiding small enclosures that stare back at the objects, thus turning the park visitor into a part of the exhibit. The small accomodations in the box just allow for one person making the experience extremely private and with several viewports inside the box allow them to witness multiple “performances”. Collaboration with Germane Barnes.

4 X 6 is a reserach project displayed during the exhibit “Beautiful Decay” in Opa Locaka. As an exercise, designers and artists have played a collaborative game, called Cadavre Exquis (Exquisite Corpse). Each participant would draw an image on a sheet of paper, fold the paper to conceal their addition, then pass it on to the next player for their contribution. Taking turns adding onto each other’s drawings and collages resulted in fantastic composite figures. The resulting images would oscillate between humorous and absurd. This proposal outlines 4 iconic architectural typologies in Miami-Dade County and identifies 6 defining ornamental characteristics of each style.The exhibit Beautiful Decay is an architectural exploration into the viability of current methods of habitation. Both real and speculative, the selected projects explore sceneries and scenarios that tackle the issue facing our ever changing landscapes. The exhibit ran for two months with the generous support of the Opa Locka Community Development Corporation. Project 4 x 6 designed by Joachim Perez & Germane Barnes. Exhibit Co-curated by Joachim Perez & Germane Barnes

O, Miami, builds community through literature. They produce an annual poetry festival that seeks to expose the entire South Florida community to poetry using creative tactics and ideas. For the 2017 festival my project Poetry, Please was selected as a finalist and will be released in April. The concept uses hospitality architecture to inform travelers coming to Miami that there is more to this city than just a beach. The installation is treated more as a social experiment.