Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
portable architecture???
sir,
does portable architecture qualify into what we are doing??
http://www.archdaily.com/151400/the-cube-restaurant-in-brussels/
http://www.archdaily.com/118972/the-cube-pavilion-park-associati/
in any case try searching this book
portable architecture by robert kronenburg
does portable architecture qualify into what we are doing??
http://www.archdaily.com/151400/the-cube-restaurant-in-brussels/
http://www.archdaily.com/118972/the-cube-pavilion-park-associati/
in any case try searching this book
portable architecture by robert kronenburg
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
are we looking something on these lines (too)??
dynamic architecture-london
okay...
im a bit (??) confused..
so anyways
found this thing
are we looking at something similar to this?
there are other such proposals in paris, moscow, uae etc
check here
check here
okay...
im a bit (??) confused..
so anyways
found this thing
are we looking at something similar to this?
there are other such proposals in paris, moscow, uae etc
check here
check here
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Literature Survey
Please read this. Its basically to help us all get organized and start working for once.
First thing up on the submissions list is Literature Survey. I'm including the ones I've already reviewed/am reviewing:
1. 101 Things I Learnt in Architecture School by Mathew Frederick
Sounds like a dud, but there are some basic points that sort of help.
2. The Eyes of the Skin by Juhani Pallasmaa
This book is part of college curriculums across the world, and is thankfully written in a style that doesn't make you drop asleep. Its a good read
3. Towards a New Architecture by Jeffrey Kipnis
This essay sort of gave a better understanding of the seminar brief, so its a recommended read for everyone. Personally, though, the essay is a drag of a read, too much jargon.
4. Thinking Architecture by Peter Zumthor (still reading)
The basic issue I'm facing is finding what to read: virtually everything has some reference to a discussion on architectural form in general, and helps chip in their views on what makes it more worthwhile, or how to better analyze it. A pruned up list by Sir?
Please add on the books/essays/whatever you've reviewed in comments. Or suggestions. Hark back to the original brief for help.
First thing up on the submissions list is Literature Survey. I'm including the ones I've already reviewed/am reviewing:
1. 101 Things I Learnt in Architecture School by Mathew Frederick
Sounds like a dud, but there are some basic points that sort of help.
2. The Eyes of the Skin by Juhani Pallasmaa
This book is part of college curriculums across the world, and is thankfully written in a style that doesn't make you drop asleep. Its a good read
3. Towards a New Architecture by Jeffrey Kipnis
This essay sort of gave a better understanding of the seminar brief, so its a recommended read for everyone. Personally, though, the essay is a drag of a read, too much jargon.
4. Thinking Architecture by Peter Zumthor (still reading)
The basic issue I'm facing is finding what to read: virtually everything has some reference to a discussion on architectural form in general, and helps chip in their views on what makes it more worthwhile, or how to better analyze it. A pruned up list by Sir?
Please add on the books/essays/whatever you've reviewed in comments. Or suggestions. Hark back to the original brief for help.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Literature Survey
Where do we start?
Going by the Seminar Brief...
1. Nikolaus Pevsner - 'A History of Building Types'
2. Jeffrey Kipnis - Quite a few... Wikipedia page, for starters.
And I have a dozen or so books on my hard disk that might be able to help, but I have to go through them first. It'll be good if we can gradually add on to our reading list in comments.
Also, this is an interesting place to check out.
12 leading architects were asked to craft a floor each at the Hotel Puerta America, Madrid. These included the likes of Jean Nouvel (who did the facade as well), Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster and Arata Isozaki. The hotel has garnered some horrible reviews as far as service is concerned, but it still manages to rake in cash because of its edginess. It doesn't directly relate to 'facades', but it does relate to form and how so many different interpretations of it lie in such close contact to each other: Zaha Hadid's 'Flintstones meets Jetsons' is 9 floors away from Isozaki's 'Neo-Noir Ryokan'; even the garage has a big-ticket designer: Teresa Sapey. And all of it fits in that building.
The hotel charges an extra fee for floor changes.
My personal favourite is Isozaki's floor...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Deadline
Dear All,
I mean ALL so please forward this to the rest of your group/class mates. (I think I have some ids from each seminar group)
You must be done with your training by now. Hope you had an enjoyable time. Hope also that the seminar has been simmering on the back burner all along. I am looking forward- in fact have been waiting for your batch seminars. Truly ! J! Am expecting the prizewinning streak to surface yet again with the seminars and that’s why such a special and challenging ‘umbrella’ topic- design- all for you!
Don’t let me down or waste this fantastic opportunity to publish the best seminar book yet …
We are in the process of changing to the semester system- the decision for when that happens will be taken on the eve of the reopening.
If we start with this academic year you have less time than the final years have had for the final paper- the one that gets published. Everything has to be wrapped up before the end of the semester. Till now we would ‘cheat’ a bit and allow the final papers to be finished over the winter break. May be a blessing actually!
Will let you know as soon as we know.
Also wanted to remind you of the literature survey that is due on the first seminar class, submission requirement for which is as follows:
I do hope you have been interacting closely with your advisors. If you haven’t been this is the time to start. Literature surveys done without advisor interaction may not be accepted.
Literature Survey
40 Marks (out of a total of 200 for seminar)
First class 28 July 11
Literature Survey
40 Marks (out of a total of 200 for seminar)
Word limit: 10,000-12,000 words.
Work to be presented in the following format:
Paper size- A-4; 1” margins all round; font : Arial, Times New Roman or equivalent; font size: 12 pt; line spacing: 1 ½ .
The Harvard referencing system to be used.
Work to be run past plagiarism software: Viper- see note below
The plagiarism software suggested is called"Viper", you can google viper free plagiarism checker and download it on your comp. You can then upload your essay for scanning- just follow the instructions provided by the software-and the checker will highlight sentences,phrases etc. you need to reference,reword and so on.The checker takes time and you may have to make multiple attempts before your essay gets scanned-so have patience and good luck!
That’s for now
Looking forward to a great seminar programme with you and a seminar book we can be proud of at the end of it.
Best wishes
Ranjana Ma’am
PS: can any one person from each group please acknowledge this?
Also some groups have yet to give me their group lists! High time now so please do so ASAP.
Friday, June 24, 2011
What do with Information
The idea behind the seminar is not to gather information - gathering information is a relic of the past, where students were expected to trawl through libraries to read all the books their hallowed guides thought were relevant. Now, thankfully, we live in an environment where information is available. I suppose I could ignore that it is available to you and pretend to be suitably surprised when you turn out millions of pages of perfectly relevant text. But a better strategy is to take the information and THINK about it in a new way (not package it in a new way). That is what I am interested in - how one thinks about all the information one has?
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Folding
Fold is the very common phenomenon that we can find everywhere around us, in the nature, in the science things or even on our body. In this experiment, I would like test the folding effect with the parametric way. Through the manipulation of the control points on the surface, we can control the every single protrusive part on the surface. These tests show some different results, more random or with certain rhythm.
http://www.makeahybrid.org/2011/01/fold-expetriment/
http://www.makeahybrid.org/2011/01/fold-expetriment/
Saturday, May 14, 2011
The Next Architecture
great article about the future of the profession here
be sure to read through all 7 parts of the article. will be interesting to hear your feedback
be sure to read through all 7 parts of the article. will be interesting to hear your feedback
Monday, April 11, 2011
unusual form has fewer takers
Wonderful little video here - focus on what he says towards the end of the talk
Global Cities of the Future
Interesting Interactive Graphic
Over the next 15 years, 600 cities will account for more than 60 percent of global GDP growth. Which of them will contribute the largest number of children or elderly to the world’s population? Which will see the fastest expansion of new entrants to the consuming middle classes? How will regional patterns of growth differ?
Explore these questions by browsing through the interactive global map below, which contains city-specific highlights from the McKinsey Global Institute’s database of more than 2,000 metropolitan areas around the world. You’ll see why growth strategies focused at the country level may fall short in the future: with new hot spots emerging and household wealth surging in little-known urban centers, companies may have to adopt a much finer-grained approach to tap into the growth that lies ahead.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Animate Form need not be buildings
Here is a short video that on one level is maybe just a slick marketing gimmick.. but seen through the eyes of an architect, it is a transformation of a public space (this happens to be michigan avenue in chicago), not by fancy moving architecture, but people itself animating the existing form. Click through the link to get a better video or a different angle of view - they are plenty of this event on youtube
Spatial transformation is not always about a built intervention that adapts to or obeys human command, but can also be a dramatic human intervention - a special event that makes us look at form in a way that we didn't think was possible.
It would be nice to see lots of more interesting examples of spatial transformation.
Check out the official video of the song to get better quality audio.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Anish Kapoor creates New Form
For those of you who missed the show in Delhi, this film looks at Anish Kapoor's work quite well. Follow the rest of the videos on youtube
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Juvet Landscape Hotel
Infusing something less... fantastic (???) for now.
Juvet Landscape Hotel is in Norway and is basically a series of wooden boxes with a glass facade oriented for views. The architects are JSA of Norway. I think this is a facade that excites equally well. But then again, its me and my box-fixation.
More images can be found here.
More images can be found here.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Video: Reuben Margolin\
Video: Reuben Margolin\
Check out this video of Reuben Margolin, a Bay Area visionary and longtime maker, creates totally singular techno-kinetic wave sculptures. Using everything from wood to cardboard to found and salvaged objects, Reubens artwork is diverse, with sculptures ranging from tiny to looming, motorized to hand-cranked. Focusing on natural elements like a discrete water droplet or a powerful ocean eddy, his work is elegant and hypnotic. Also, learn how ocean waves can power our future. Learn more about Reuben at http://www.reubenmargolin.com/
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Jeff Kipnis Talks Windows
Jeff Kipnis at Knowlton Hall
While this lecture talks only about windows, what i would like you to see is how he correlates (sometimes stretching it) different architectural objects, weaves a historical narrative into it - and only ever discusses ONE aspect of the facade, i.e., windows. This is the kind of intellectual framework we should be looking at.
Reading list coming soon - you may also suggest
While this lecture talks only about windows, what i would like you to see is how he correlates (sometimes stretching it) different architectural objects, weaves a historical narrative into it - and only ever discusses ONE aspect of the facade, i.e., windows. This is the kind of intellectual framework we should be looking at.
Reading list coming soon - you may also suggest
Saturday, March 5, 2011
zenthrum paul klee - piano
i do not know if this example would go with what we are doing in the seminar
but nevertheless :)
(search for images and links yourself... limited net access)
but nevertheless :)
(search for images and links yourself... limited net access)
Why Beauty Matters
Philosopher Roger Scruton examines the loss of beauty in the modern culture. Part 1 of 5 - Follow the rest on youtube
“Frankly, I cannot believe that in the short span of our history we have experimented with and exhausted the possibilities of form.”
Jeffrey Kipnis
The appearance of buildings informs our understanding of them. We can look at a building and attempt to comprehend it without inhabiting it. We draw upon fragments of our memory to correlate certain specific symbols and aspects of its exterior and establish relationships – The cross on the church, the display window at a shop, etc. This helps us navigate our worlds as most buildings seek to conform to the visual nature of the category they belong to. Nikolaus Pevsner has written a rather large book, ‘A History of Building types’, which re-emphasizes the same point – that a façade must communicate the internal function of the building within established norms
However, as architects, we all love crazy buildings. Buildings that swoop and swerve, that arrest the eye – that try and be more than just containers of space. Buildings that have fantastic forms. Certain buildings don’t even have to swoop and swerve to be crazy – they are just so far removed our original understanding that we look at them and say – surely that can’t be a hotel – wow, how did they do that? The Mountain, by BIG, is a prime example of a façade being generated by an absolutely new way of looking at a building typology.
Unfortunately, human intelligence and stupidity are somewhat evenly distributed. It would be wonderful if all architects were gifted geniuses who could create fantastically original forms, but the reality means that a mass of followers inanely copy forms created by the few gifted ones. There are millions who aspire to be Hadid or Gehry, and incorporate the visual medium in their architecture. Hence the ugliness of the modern world
The Challenge of the New Façade
Of course, the counterpoint to this is the sheer wastefulness of facades that are simply pretending to be something or convey something that they really do not represent. Is that really what architecture should be looking to do with itself? Have architects become so self-serving and neurotic that their only concern is how to make their buildings somehow ‘look different’?
The façade of a building has to do more these days. Free from supporting the load for over a century, it now has to be almost alive with responsiveness to the environment. It needs to react to occupancy, weather, erosion, pollution and even generate the energy required to run the building it covers.
Are we prepared to give the façade of the building greater responsibilities than just prettiness? Can we look forward to buildings that not only look good, but do a lot of things that transform buildings from simple containers of space to meaningful contributors to human life?
Meanwhile, don’t forget that we still like crazy buildings. We want to push the envelope (literally) and create new patterns with our creativity. Let us examine how architecture can continue to be the subject matter for art.
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