HogueWorks is based in Indianapolis and led by Jess Hogue, an artist and architect of 20 years.

Hogue utilizes processes that combine her background in sculpture with the architectural design methods of parametric modeling and digital fabrication to embed her materials and work with meaning. 

In parametric modeling, rules are set up to generate geometry using parameters, relationships, and constraints. While in architecture school, Hogue began using this technique as a generative, form-finding tool. In school and in practice afterwards, she continued designing building masses and facades using parametric modeling software. At the same time, she could see other potentials for the method to generate geometries that weren’t only functional as building components but also expressive in similar ways to the figure sculptures she created before she began her career in architecture.

Drawing inspiration from weather and moon phases, longitudes and latitudes of significant places, or even initials and dates relevant to people she loves, Hogue has mined her personal life for data to apply to this technology. The pieces are then brought to life via techniques in digital fabrication and a CNC router.

Hogue works with clients to mine their own stories to create art for their spaces that can be enjoyed for both its formal composition and for the meaning embedded within it. The process of creating the pieces can forge new connections to the events, locations and other particularities of one’s personal history.