Working to tie our studio life to the School of Athens, was a difficult task on the surface but once we started to undertake some research found that there is a lot to learn and pull from each. In the School of Athens work I found that the fresco has a purposely centered to create a since of stability and balance at the core of the work. From this center everything else radiates from the two men in the center of the painting are the balancing, ordering minds of the day. With them in the middle the give a sense of proportion and order in the fresco it’s self. That coupled with the uses of one point linear perspective to allow the work to appear to be three-dimensional on a two-dimensional surface.

The sense of order coming from the middle comes into the realm of our studio building in a similar way that the critic spaces are the core and that craziness radiates around this central ordering. The critic space is where the core of the learning and gathering of ideas meets. But the madness of the individual ideas are developed around the outside of this centralized point of order.

Our critic room acts as a center of coming together to present ones ideas and knowledge. This is a place to challenge each other and learn from each other. The center of each studio is based in this atmosphere of sharing and learning together. Much like in Raphael’s fresco there is no accident in the way that he set up his work he wanted all the radiated around the center, the work is to be a visualization of knowledge.