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Taubman College of Architecture and Urban + Regional PlanningUniversity of MichiganFall 2020UG0/1 ARCH 312 Architectural Design Studio
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban + Regional PlanningUniversity of MichiganFall 2020
ARCH 312 Architectural Design Studio
DAYSTIMES
CREDITS
M, W, F1:00 - 5:00 (flex)6 / REMOTE
Karen Duan Melissa HarrisJono SturtAnca TrandafirescuGlenn WilcoxPeter Yi
FACULTY
The word “precursor” is indispensable to the vocabulary of criticism, but one must try to purify it from any connotation of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that each writer creates his precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
-Jorge Luis Borges.
This studio looks to precursors not because they are finished or solidified pieces of knowledge, but because they are not. We are more interested in the flexible reconsideration of given models than in the simple duplication of previous forms. In this sense our attitude toward historical precedents is not one of quotation, but one of inspiration where a distillation of principles, analytically understood, provides a critical framework from which to generate architectural propositions.
“...that great poem, which all poets, like the cooperating thoughts of one great mind, have built up since the beginning of the world.”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
influenceThis studio posits that close reading and critical analysis of prior works of architecture are vital aspects of future architectural invention. Studying architectural exemplars is not solely a means to accessing high quality samples. When looked at relationally these samples can provide an understanding of the active conversations being had between architects, throughout history, that together construct our built environment. These conversations depend upon critical acts, deep but also new readings, each setting the grounds for the next exchange. Architectural discourse, in this sense, can be seen as a chain of sympathetic extensions, partial revisions, or even outright rejections, as materially embodied in the work of architecture itself and the intellectual positions taken by their authors. This studio aims to provide the platform for students to become effective and inventive participants in this conversation.
photograph: reflection in Johnson's Glass house
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