14
Aug
2008
GC theoretical frameworks
There is a new bit at the start of the 2 day workshop that I do that deals with a lot of the general theory of using GC, it’s still got a long way to go before it’s perfect, but it’s currently lopping about half a day off the time taken to get to the end of what was previously the end of the workshop.you can find the PDF presentation here…
..and you can find the scans of the notebook that I planned it in below. I think these 3 pages are actually far more interesting than the finished product!
click on the images to go to flickr and see them at a decent resolution.
15
Apr
2008
architectural ideas are inherited from generation to generation – hmm, really?
This is my Thinking Architecture essay, i thought i’d got out of doing it, but obviously not.
It has some images in the PDF (here) but their absence doesn’t really detract from the content, just the visual appeal.
‘Architectural ideas are inherited from generation to generation’. (Colomina, 1999)
Up to this point, from which architects have you inherited ideas extended in your architectural design? Name a primary architectural forefather or foremother and set out, by an analysis of a maximum of two of their projects (including art installations), how you have interpreted or modified the spatial/structural/tectonic etc concepts being purported by the earlier generation in your design. It will be important for you to posit yourself i.e. where your beliefs lie. Are you a post- Deconstructivist, Neo-Modernist, Metabolist, Constructivist, etc? It is essential you discuss how your inheritance of architectural ideas connects to and extends the aims of your DS unit and your individual design project. [Please include illustrations of the two projects by your inspirational architect showing their connection to your architectural design.]
The premise of this essay is to explore the supremely personal issue of inspiration. Initially I had planned to take a very broad approach and suggest that true inspiration, as expressed in contemporary architecture, only ever comes from outside the profession, but on consideration that statement seems a little bombastic and the reality is far more nuanced. Read the rest of this entry »