Some narrow site NYC Buildings
Raimund Abraham
Austrian Cultural Forum Tower
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/abraham/austrian/
Tod Williams Billie Tsien
American Folk Art Museum
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/williams_tsien/american_folk/
Austrian Cultural Forum Tower
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/abraham/austrian/
Tod Williams Billie Tsien
American Folk Art Museum
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/williams_tsien/american_folk/
Portfolio Tutorial 3/27
The AIAS are delivering a portfolio tutorial tomorrow, Thursday 3/27, at 12:30. All students are invited.
New Readings
I added some readings from what we discussed in class.
This Goodly frame the Earth - Alexander Purves (About Aalto and nature)
Frank Lloyd Wright - Organic Architecture
Le Corbusier - 5 Points
This Goodly frame the Earth - Alexander Purves (About Aalto and nature)
Frank Lloyd Wright - Organic Architecture
Le Corbusier - 5 Points
RE: Program and your "Thesis"
First is the program of the museum (What is the title of your museum?).
Next is how the museum makes the experience (How do we move from space to space? What shapes the spaces? How big are they?).
Last is how the museum responds to the other museums and its context (What is the relationship of your building to your neighbor and how is it influenced by its context and program?).
The experience could be how you move through the program or vise versa. This will be the focus of the project for the next few weeks. It's hard to construct a direct response architecturally to words you write regarding your thesis, but you should be able to express ideas through use of light, material, movement, scale, etc. Make a diagram with sketches that juxtapose your program idea with how you might see the space that holds it. Use the ideas, tools and techniques that we have seen and learned in class for the last three projects. All of those ideas should help lead you into making this one.
I will answer e-mail questions as best I can, but it might help all of you if you use the blog to ask each other questions and I will try to comment whenever I can. It's a work in progress - don't be shy to post your ideas.
Next is how the museum makes the experience (How do we move from space to space? What shapes the spaces? How big are they?).
Last is how the museum responds to the other museums and its context (What is the relationship of your building to your neighbor and how is it influenced by its context and program?).
The experience could be how you move through the program or vise versa. This will be the focus of the project for the next few weeks. It's hard to construct a direct response architecturally to words you write regarding your thesis, but you should be able to express ideas through use of light, material, movement, scale, etc. Make a diagram with sketches that juxtapose your program idea with how you might see the space that holds it. Use the ideas, tools and techniques that we have seen and learned in class for the last three projects. All of those ideas should help lead you into making this one.
I will answer e-mail questions as best I can, but it might help all of you if you use the blog to ask each other questions and I will try to comment whenever I can. It's a work in progress - don't be shy to post your ideas.
Thesis Builder & Online Outliner
This might help if you get stuck writing (or loose focus), but remember for architects, visual images, drawings and models are always more convincing than words.
http://ozline.com/electraguide/thesis.html
http://ozline.com/electraguide/thesis.html
About Immigration on the Lower East Side
Answers About Immigration on the Lower East Side
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/answers-about-immigration-on-the-lower-east-side/
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/answers-about-immigration-on-the-lower-east-side-part-2/
The Great Lower East Side Pickle War
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/05/the-great-lower-east-side-pickle-war/?scp=4-b&sq=orchard+street&st=nyt
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/answers-about-immigration-on-the-lower-east-side/
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/answers-about-immigration-on-the-lower-east-side-part-2/
The Great Lower East Side Pickle War
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/05/the-great-lower-east-side-pickle-war/?scp=4-b&sq=orchard+street&st=nyt
Developing your “Thesis”
A few more Thoughts:
When developing your “Thesis”, you might want to begin by mapping it similar to the movement studies. Remember the Mapping chart everyone did (or was supposed to do)? Varying parts of your idea can be traced and mapped hierarchically this way. It may aid in focusing your thoughts and help your initial presentation. 
When developing your “Thesis”, you might want to begin by mapping it similar to the movement studies. Remember the Mapping chart everyone did (or was supposed to do)? Varying parts of your idea can be traced and mapped hierarchically this way. It may aid in focusing your thoughts and help your initial presentation.
Idea and Data Mapping
Below are graphic mapping drawings from “Learning from Las Vegas” by Robert Venturi – a book you should all eventually know and read.
The maps show some graphic techniques for analyzing the uses on a street (the Vegas strip) and its character and context.
The maps show some graphic techniques for analyzing the uses on a street (the Vegas strip) and its character and context.
The illumination diagram sort of demonstrates what I was alluding to for the sound mapping.
As you develop your ideas, writing and drawings, you should post for all to comment.
Riis, Jacob A. How the other half lives :studies among the tenements of New York. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897.
The whole book is here, but you should all read the Introduction, Chapter 1 "Genesis of the Tenement" and Chapter 2 "The Awakening" . Good precedent for your analaysis.
http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/4137257?n=1&imagesize=1200&jp2Res=.5
Also see NY Times:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/revisiting-the-other-half-of-jacob-riis/index.html
Riis Photo Slideshow
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/02/27/nyregion/20080227_RIIS_SLIDESHOW_index.html
http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/4137257?n=1&imagesize=1200&jp2Res=.5
Also see NY Times:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/revisiting-the-other-half-of-jacob-riis/index.html
Riis Photo Slideshow
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/02/27/nyregion/20080227_RIIS_SLIDESHOW_index.html
Architecture is ...
Architecture is "the art of building in which human requirements and construction materials are related so as to furnish practical use as well as an aesthetic solution, thus differing from the pure utility of engineering construction. As an art, architecture is essentially abstract and nonrepresentational and involves the manipulation of the relationships of spaces, volumes, planes, masses, and voids. Time is also an important factor in architecture, since a building is usually comprehended in a succession of experiences rather than all at once. In most architecture there is no one vantage point from which the whole structure can be understood. The use of light and shadow, as well as surface decoration, can greatly enhance a structure. The analysis of building types provides an insight into past cultures and eras. Behind each of the greater styles lies not a casual trend nor a vogue, but a period of serious and urgent experimentation directed toward answering the needs of a specific way of life. Climate, methods of labor, available materials, and economy of means all impose their dictates. Each of the greater styles has been aided by the discovery of new construction methods." (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2001-05 Columbia University Press.)
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