“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 order? Function and objects.”
Le Corbusier
“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 concrete [than of wood, brick and stone]. We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself....New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.”
“The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time. We must have order, allocating to each thing it's proper place and giving to each thing is due according to it's nature.”
“We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be...”
“If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.”
Mies van der Rohe
“It is better to be good than to be original.”
“This is no less true of steel and concrete [than of wood, brick and stone]. We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself....New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.”
“The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time. We must have order, allocating to each thing it's proper place and giving to each thing is due according to it's nature.”
“We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be...”
“If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.”
Mies van der Rohe
“Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”
“"Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”
“Get the habit of analysis- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.”
“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
“Freedom is from within.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“"Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”
“Get the habit of analysis- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.”
“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
“Freedom is from within.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
Take a look at the drawings of Zaha Hadid - Center for Contemporary Art. Simple easy to read yet complex enough to show intentions.
http://picasaweb.google.com/amoiacody/ZahaHadidCenterForContemporaryArt/photo#s5192100976664107362
http://picasaweb.google.com/amoiacody/ZahaHadidCenterForContemporaryArt/photo#s5192100976664107362
Leicester Engineering Building
"With the engineering building for Leicester University we had to build a new institution of a scientific/educational type. The tower at the front contains the fixed non-expanding accommodation and is intended to be a grouping of identifiable volumes of accommodation, i.e. vertical shafts which are for lifts and staircases, wedge-shaped volumes which are lecture theaters, etc. The back of the building is considered as a shed, within which there can be continuous re-equipping and adjustment of spaces. The total building should read as a conjunction of fixed specific activities and of a variable changing situation, ... "
J. Stirling "Anti-structure", a slide talk by J. Stirling at Bologna University
FINAL PRESENTATION
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 consistent in size and composed. Start your layouts now so that we can review as part of the completion and editing process. Knowing what to draw (where to cut plans and sections) is as just important as how much to draw (more detail(s) or more diagrams)
Remember the CONCEPT! These projects are in no way “Buildings”. Architecture is a concept event – ideas must be present for the artistry to show itself. Without this artistry – no architecture – just building (and to use Yiyun’s term “boring”)!
Don’t think of a stair as a “stair”, but a connecting device - a controller of movement.
Don’t think of a facade as a “facade”, but a modulator of light and shadow - a controller of threshold both for movement and light.
Don’t think of a structure as a “structure”, but a conceptual presence that holds form and space - a controller of weight and air – a developer of shape.
Don’t think of a program as a “program”, but as an organizer of sizes in space – a regulator of scale and measure – the organs of a body.
A Producer develops a film by gathering a team – it’s a construction process. Now ask yourself what would that film be without its Director? That creative artist that shapes sequence and sets creative process. Be the Director of your work, not the Producers! Set the scene for your actors – for your forms in space!
If you are serious, creating architecture is difficult yet simple, frustrating yet rewarding, equally conceptual and pragmatic. No “right and wrong” exists in Architecture. No one form is grater than the other. The only real difference between “building” and “architecture” is that the former is just a set of plans, a construction process; the latter is developed to control events that move the sprit, a creative process. It is artful and intentional. The quote by Le Corbusier says it all:
You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces; that is construction. Ingenuity is at work. 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.
Remember the CONCEPT! These projects are in no way “Buildings”. Architecture is a concept event – ideas must be present for the artistry to show itself. Without this artistry – no architecture – just building (and to use Yiyun’s term “boring”)!
Don’t think of a stair as a “stair”, but a connecting device - a controller of movement.
Don’t think of a facade as a “facade”, but a modulator of light and shadow - a controller of threshold both for movement and light.
Don’t think of a structure as a “structure”, but a conceptual presence that holds form and space - a controller of weight and air – a developer of shape.
Don’t think of a program as a “program”, but as an organizer of sizes in space – a regulator of scale and measure – the organs of a body.
A Producer develops a film by gathering a team – it’s a construction process. Now ask yourself what would that film be without its Director? That creative artist that shapes sequence and sets creative process. Be the Director of your work, not the Producers! Set the scene for your actors – for your forms in space!
If you are serious, creating architecture is difficult yet simple, frustrating yet rewarding, equally conceptual and pragmatic. No “right and wrong” exists in Architecture. No one form is grater than the other. The only real difference between “building” and “architecture” is that the former is just a set of plans, a construction process; the latter is developed to control events that move the sprit, a creative process. It is artful and intentional. The quote by Le Corbusier says it all:
You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces; that is construction. Ingenuity is at work. 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.
You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build
houses and palaces; that is construction. Ingenuity is at work. 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.
Le Corbusier: Vers une architecture, 1923
houses and palaces; that is construction. Ingenuity is at work. 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.
Le Corbusier: Vers une architecture, 1923
How Epidemics Helped Shape the Modern Metropolis
Cholera Epidemic of 1832
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/science/15chol.html?ref=science
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/science/15chol.html?ref=science
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