WSU architecture students open exhibit on Endicott

Results of a three-day architectural site visit to Endicott last year by WSU architecture and interior design students will be featured in an exhibition in Moscow.

“Endicott: A Photo and Diorama Exhibition” will be held at the Turnspace Gallery, 129 W. Third Street in Moscow from Nov. 1–16 with a reception Friday, Nov. 1, from 6 to 8 p.m.

Graduate architecture students Catie Knoebel and Kandis Larsen compiled 160 photographic stories and six dioramas.

“We wanted to show Endicott in a way that probably even the residents have never seen it before,” Knoebel said.

In October of last year, 16 architecture and interior design graduate students from WSU spent three days in Endicott. Staying each night in the Endicott Trinity Lutheran Church, they set out to absorb the atmosphere of the town through firsthand experience. During the stay, each student documented their experience of a chosen site in town through sketches, photography and other exploratory methods.

After returning to Pullman, each student rendered their observations and experience in the form of a wooden diorama box.

“The diorama medium allowed students to explore the qualitative dimensions and psychological aspects of place, filtered through memory, from a single, fixed point-of-view through an aperture,” said Knoebel.

Only a select collection of the stories will be displayed in this exhibition, but along with a number of others have been consolidated into a publication available for purchase.