Cody Studio - Design Fundamentals II - Spring 2008

Portfolios are due on May 16th either presented the Richard Meier Model Gallery or left in my mailbox at school. One copy + one copy on CD w...

Richard Meier & Partners is delighted to welcome you to our Model Gallery in Long Island City on Friday, 16 May at noon and 1:00pm (two ...

Below is the order of the pin-up. All must be present and ready at 6pm – no excuses! We will set up the models as the street, and then start...

“A Work of Art... is not a living thing ... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives you a reaction. To some it is the...

“To express is to drive. And when you want to give something presence, you have to consult nature. And there is where Design comes in. And i...

“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeas...

“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.” “To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in ord...

“I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.” “It is better to be good than to be original.” “This is no less true of steel and c...

“Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.” “"Think simple...

Take a look at the drawings of Zaha Hadid - Center for Contemporary Art. Simple easy to read yet complex enough to show intentions. http://p...

http://www.mvrdv.nl/_v2/projects/303_anyang/index.html

http://www.mvrdv.nl/_v2/projects/015_wozoco/index.html

"With the engineering building for Leicester University we had to build a new institution of a scientific/educational type. The tower a...

Let’s think of the final presentation the same way you think about portfolio (this way you don’t need to do it twice!). All sheets are to be...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/whitman/map/2.html#location

You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces; that is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But ...

Cholera Epidemic of 1832 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/science/15chol.html?ref=science

"But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say “This is beautiful.” That is architecture. Art enters in […]...

http://rcnyit.bravehost.com/DF2-2008/Readings/Hertzberger102.pdf

Mid-Term Review – Monday April 14, 2008 - 6pm sharp (pinned up and ready to go) Drawings All drawings to be ink on mylar or CAD color plots....

http://archidose.blogspot.com/2008/04/ae3-habitable-bridges.html

Congradulations to Professor Imas http://youtube.com/watch?v=fMF2VVkBOaI

Daniel Libeskind http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/projects/show-all/

I. M. Pei http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei Maya Ying Lin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial Billie Tsien http://ww...

Eileen Gray http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Gray Kevin Roche http://www.irish-architecture.com/architects_ireland/kevin_roche/

Gunnar Asplund http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_Asplund Ralph Erskine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Erskine_%28architect%29

Raimund Abraham Austrian Cultural Forum Tower http://www.arcspace.com/architects/abraham/austrian/ Tod Williams Billie Tsien American Folk A...

Check out the Other Good Stuff section to the left for the paintings for Dom.

The AIAS are delivering a portfolio tutorial tomorrow, Thursday 3/27, at 12:30. All students are invited.

Here is a website with high resolution pictures from the early 1900's http://www.shorpy.com/shorpy

I added some readings from what we discussed in class. This Goodly frame the Earth - Alexander Purves (About Aalto and nature) Frank Lloyd W...

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 spa...

This might help if you get stuck writing (or loose focus), but remember for architects, visual images, drawings and models are always more c...

Answers About Immigration on the Lower East Side http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/answers-about-immigration-on-the-lower-east-si...

http://www.oasisnyc.net/OASISMap.asp?name=OASIS+Map&Left=984461&Bottom=198982&Right=988838&Top=203359&xMin=579&xMax=...

A few more Thoughts: When developing your “Thesis”, you might want to begin by mapping it similar to the movement studies. Remember the Mapp...

Below are graphic mapping drawings from “Learning from Las Vegas” by Robert Venturi – a book you should all eventually know and read. The ma...

http://www.tenement.org/Virtual_Tour/index_virtual.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchard_Street_(Manhattan) http://w...

The whole book is here, but you should all read the Introduction, Chapter 1 "Genesis of the Tenement" and Chapter 2 "The Awak...

Architecture is "the art of building in which human requirements and construction materials are related so as to furnish practical use ...