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    <div class="html-content">IMDA MFA Program Alumnus and Visual Arts Department Adjunct faculty person Gary Kachadourian "cut-and-fold" drawings highlighted in November 30th issue of MEDIUM magazine in an article written by Nate Berg. 
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    <div>"The freeway sound wall may be as overlooked as it is ubiquitous. Lining interstates and highways and freeways across the United States, these concrete and cinderblock structures are a blur in the peripheral vision of our automotive world." 
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    <div>"To give readers an opportunity to better understand the constraints under which freeway sound walls are designed, re:form has commissioned artist Gary Kachadourian to create a cut-and-fold paper sculpture of a sound wall, inspired by Southern California freeways, that can be printed out on letter-size paper and constructed into customizable models.</div>
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