Abstract
This paper aims to bring a new nexus of activities around architect and educator William Huff’s work, presented
here as an experimental design assignment in architectural education. After his retirement, professor Huff donated
a collection of his students’ work to the HfG Archive in Ulm, Germany, which inspired us, at the Institute of Art
and Design in Vienna to give a semester assignment focusing on parquet deformations (PD). The open search for
strategies to transfer the idea of planar PDs into 3D led to fascinating results. We discovered a field of formal
research that broadened the students’ horizons concerning 2 and 3-dimensional relationships enthusing them
considerably by making them aware of the unlimited possibilities of spatial transformation. This is a brief report
of a fruitful project in basic design education for architects and designers.
