EMBODIED ARCHITECTURE as a CHOREOGRAPHIC PROCESS.


Dance


Architecture


Urbanism







IZZI WAITZ


Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.Arch ‘29, MCP ‘29, BS ‘23

Cambridge, MA
izzi@mit.edu

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Choreographic Scores as Architectural Input
FA 2024 | Choreographic Coding Labs
São Paulo, Brazil

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Street Scores
FA 2025 | Senseable City Lab
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

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Movement in Tension
SP 2023 | MIT MAS.863

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Dynamic Movement in Static Mediums
SP 2023 | MIT MAS.863

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Dance Archive Project
FA 2022 | MIT.Nano Immersion Lab

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Cambridge Housing Studio
SP 2026 | MIT M.Arch Core II

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MIT SA+P Archive Center
FA 2025 | MIT M.Arch Core I

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Ten Sticks One Cut Each
FA 2025 | MIT M.Arch Core I

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Stair From There to Nowhere
FA 2025 | MIT M.Arch Core I

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Optoppen
SP 2024 | Denkwerk Architectuur
Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Kaleidescope Shelter
SP 2022 | MIT Professor Larry Sass
Helsingborg, Sweden

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Swedish Framing Model 
SP 2022 | Threshold Office
Brooklyn, USA

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Daylight Bunker 
SP 2022 | Threshold Office
Brooklyn, USA

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Pedestrian Perception Study 
SP 2024 | MIT.Nano Immersion Lab

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Cambridge Lot Project 
SP 2022 | MIT 4.024

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Bilateral Sym-
metry: Group m
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Playing Cards
and Walnuts:
Groups 2 and
2mm
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The Triskelion 
and the Green
Pepper: Groups 3 
and 3m
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The Swastika and 
the Greek Cross:
Groups 4 and
4mm
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Flowers and
Pentagrams:
Groups 5 and 5m
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Solomon’s Seal and
Snowflakes:
Groups 6 and
6mm

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Point Groups
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The Asymmetric
Motif: Group 1

Example Project


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Basic Operations
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How Operations
Generate
Themselves

Choreographic Scores as Architectural Input


Choreoraphic Coding Labs
São Paulo, Brazil 
FA 2024 Choreographers utilize physical 'scores' to create and record dances. Similar to Sol Lewitt's instruction manuals, each dancer can interpret the score differently, resulting in infinite iterations of the piece. Using choreographer Luiz Bongiovani's score, I derived pieces of architectural floor plans. The dancers used these plans to choreograph their own spaces, which were then projected during a live dance performance

Using the choreographic score 'Trio A,' created by Yvonne Rainer, I transformed the scores into physical spaces, creating four choreographed plans. The designs were projected during a live performance of the piece by Julia Abs in Sao Paulo, Brazil.



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‘Trio A’ by Yvonne Reiner
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How Operations
Generate
Themselves

IZZI WAITZ


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izzi@mit.edu

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