The making of architecture

I+S+bd+kc+kp+ft=arch

WhereI = Ideas S = situationBd = basic design principlesKc = knowing constructionKp = knowing partnersFt = follow throughArch = a real chance

Architecture is:A state of the

achievement of an ideal where the ideal becomes present and can direct the development of space, light, materials and systems to meet the professional duties entrusted to the architect by the public.

Fundamentally, the university is a placewhere knowledge is madefrom discovery

The faculty are engaged in the discovery and ordering

of facts and intuitionsto support and provokethe construction of knowledge

The students are engaged in personal discovery,

ordering, and reflecting on facts and intuitionsto construct a mapthat allows them a confidenceto publicly assert “I am here”the integrity to privately

acknowledge“I need to be there”and the knowledge, discipline and

commitmentto chart a course to their

destination

Wright

Mies

Le Corbusier

Behrens

Aquinas

Picasso

KahnVan Eyck

Hertzberger

FehnGiacometti

RossiDeChirico

Holl

Utzon

Venturi

Heidegger

MondrianMeier

Gehry

SullivanEmerson

Wagner

Thoreau

Furness

HusserlAristotle

Plato

SerraAalto

BouleeLedoux

Moore

TerragniEisenmann

Greeenough

Palladio

AndoLevy-Strauss

Gropius

Breuer

Piano

Foster

Gaudi

E.F. JonesH. Greene

B. Goff

MorandiKoolhaas

Gwathmey

Loos

Blossfeldt

Rietveltd

P&E

Root

Callatrava

Hedjuk

Ellwood

SchindlerDow

Salmella

Saussure

Ames

Calder

Graves

A. Gray

No poet, no artist of any kind, has their complete meaning alone. Their significance, their appreciation is the appreciation of their relation to the poets and artists that prepared the ground for them.To proceed to a more intelligible exposition of the relation of the poet to the past: one can neither take the past as a lump, an indiscriminate bolus, nor can one form themselves wholly on one or two private admirations, nor can one form themselves wholly on one preferred period. (after Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent)

Goethe

Economy

Collective

Idea

Craft

Construction

Form

Place

Manufacture

FunctionSystems

Space

Color

Multi-national

Regional

Individual

Materi

alThe City

The Environment

InnovationTradition

• From the body of your work:

• Build a map

• Find out where you’ve been on the map

• Find out which direction you’ve been moving

• Set a course towards a destination

• Update the map

• Update your location

• Update your course

• Adjust your course

• Repeat regularly

Tactical resources:

Stacking Latticing LoftingTrussing Corrugating

Beyond quantity and function lies the qualitative realm of architecture.

Principles of design:make difference, differentiatealignrotaterepeatcompose proximatelymake wholetransformtranslate

make difference

align

repeat