Vernon lecture on 'Starchitecture'.
- wasnt brilliant or overly interesting lecture, the point of which is that architects sell their name and their association with a style to clients rather than projects which are site specific.
Also often large areas of detail are overlooked to maintain the over all style this is to meet clients expectations.
seminar with Keith for AT3.1 - given building (De Montfort Uni, school of engineering and manufacture, 'Queens building') and was advised to check the library, journals and the internet (obvious really)in preparation for next weeks, main aims are to get plans for the building.
Thursday:
tutorial with Bridget, i turned up with no work and no real idea for how to proceed and rightly Bridget told me in no uncertain terms to sort myself out and then advised me to try to set my own deadlines for each week, she also asked me to email her my work, for feedback but mainly as proof im doing some
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RE: York Project development
From: Hansford, Bridget (B.Hansford@leedsmet.ac.uk)
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To: James Judge (j.judge6493@student.leedsmet.ac.uk)
Well done James! good to see you getting organised. The preliminary work looks ok - You should try to do the relationship diagram on the site which relates to the space usage and analysis so that you get a good sense of how it works with you urban strategy and link onto/through the wall, sunlight/views/private/public etc. This way you will be working with all that you know on the site. You are showing all at single storey - consider volumes of space - eg the games room will be much higher than the toilets - how is it going to work with the scale of adjacent buildings?
For next Thursday you need to develop the scheme to your first sketch scheme on the site and also in 3D to understand the massing in relationship to its context and landscape. Hope this helps. Regards Bridget
Bridget Hansford BA(Hons) Dip Arch RIBA
Senior Lecturer
Joint BA(Hons) Degree Course Leader Architecture
The Leeds School of Architecture, Landscape & Design
Arts Building, Broadcasting Place, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9EN
Leeds Metropolitan University
Book Review
Envisioning Cyberspace - Peter Anders
Architecture- the construction of Multi-User Domains (MUD)
-MUD's with high numbers of builders have lowest density populations
-MUD about social interaction not setting?
- Architects trained in: spatial design, community planning, aesthetics, graphic communications.
- will be needed to develop MUD's into more spatial forms
Terminal Velocities: the computer in the design studio by Stan Allen
- the computer in the design studio provokes both extravagant claims and high levels of anxiety
- it there a window of oppertunity between dismay or confusion and the endgame?
- digital technology is currently judged by how well it can render the real
-current architectural rendering techniques only give a narrow perceptual experience and ignore the fluidity of eye movement , peripheral vision, distance interposed between the thing and its representation
-computer simultaneously collapses and increases the distance between archs. 2d representations and buildings 3d reality
-possible to work on 2d and 3d at the same time
- new process of design
- new type of abstraction; not the result of operations of idealisation or reduction but the indifferent order of bits.
one of modern architectures failings has been inability to address the complexity of urban context
- programs dissolving the opposition between order and randomness
-architecture needs to learn to manafe this complexity, which can only be done by giving up some measure of control.
