Case Study : ' The Arch 321 Fall 2015 '

There are 25 major specialties in engineering that are recognized by professional societies. In any one of those 25 specialties, the goal of the engineer is the same. The goal is to be able to come up with a cost effective design that aids people in the tasks they face each day. Whether it be the coffee machine in the morning or the roads and highways we travel, or even the cars we travel in, it was all an idea that started with an engineer. Someone engineered each idea to make it the best solution to a problem. Even though engineer 's goals are similar, there are many different things that engineers do within their selected field of engineering. This paper will focus on the architectural field of engineering.

Question 1. Choose an architect or practice whose work is covered by or relevant to this course and discuss critically one or more of their design projects or drawings or urban proposals as precedent case-studies. Selectively situate this work in relation to their body of work, and against the practices and concerns of the period. Focus on the architectural qualities of a specific key aspect of the design of the projects. Selectively consider how they might relate to the historical situation, cultural values, theoretical concerns and design practices of the time. This may involve a selective analysis of compositional design practices, material fabrication production and the experiential reception of built outcomes of the projects.

This is done in such a way that it will generate many ideas in an emergent cognitive fashion. This will allow for many possible solutions to be explored in a short amount to time and will draw up unexpected connections.

Architecture should be nurturing, responsive and alive, dynamically shifting spatial balances, organically expressive forms, subtly luminous colors and biologically healthy. To achieve such life-enhancing architecture, it has to address all the body senses simultaneously and fuse our image of self with experience of the world. By strengthening our sense of self and reality, architecture serves its all-important function of accommodation and

In the World Like Colossus, the author mentions various types of architect’s version of the truth or the gaze. Each architect, while not directly saying, implies that their truth is absolute. This brings to question is there is such a thing as one universal truth to the way we see and experience architecture; whether it’s through Le Corbusier’s sketching or Mendelsohn’s photography, immersing yourself in the experience or taking a quick view of it. I think the diversity of each architect’s viewpoint negates the idea that one should be a “universal truth”-- instead we should embrace the different opinions of each traveler to form a more holistic approach to whatever truth we may

On his book on Modern Architecture, Curtis writes that modern architecture was faulted for it’s “supposed lack of ‘recognizable imagery’” towards the end of the 1970s. This statement supports the idea of Jencks’ double coding where architects must now make

architectural research and art practice. He utilises visual archives, mapping, events and embodied experiences to activate and generate his practice, including photographic, film and site-specific projects. Collaborative projects combine photography and mobile technology with

Coming to the United States for college from China was already quite eye-opening to me. The study abroad program to Italy opened up my horizon even more – I designed a memorial hall dedicated to the Nanking Massacre during WWII, and the moment that a dozen architects coming from Chinese, American, Italian, and other European backgrounds got together and shared their intelligent thoughts on the project really struck me. There were so many cultural and intellectual sparks colliding, and I felt substantial potential there. This is why I decided to take a summer off and travel around China to see different architectures and educate myself. Being a resident of three diverse environments has enabled me to integrate into other cultures, discover how they understand buildings, and imagine the greater potential for our built environment.

The answer to this question lies in whether you are interested in discovering the truth, or the myth of the architect. Whilst cold hard facts might present a very honest and factual catalogue of the architect and their work, it will ultimately create a very clinical and impersonal image of their character. This can lead to what Thomas S. Hines understands to be a “ debunking of almost everything, including, sometimes the magic, the poetry and the genius” behind the architect and their work. However, a piece of writing in which the truth has been manipulated, especially when it is by the hand of architects themselves, can provide something more than just a black and white description of their life’s work and achievements, it can give us a

Different architects have different styles because they are trying to get at different things. Architecture is not just about making something beautiful anymore, it is about trying to get across a set of ideas about how we inhabit space. Two of the most famous architects of the twentieth century, one from each side, the early part and the later part up until today each designed a museum with money donated by the Guggenheim foundation. One of these is in New York City, it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The other is in bilbao, Spain, and it was designed by Frank Geary. My purpose of this paper is to interrogate each of these buildings, glorious for different reasons, to show how each architect was expressing their own style.

Santiago Calatrava is a Spanish neofuturistic architect. Calatrava was born in the Benimamet neighborhood of Valencia, Spain on July 28th, 1951. After becoming a qualified architect and civil engineer, he earned his doctorate degree in technical science from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Department of Architecture for his thesis titled “Concerning the Foldability of Space Frames” in 1981. It was also during this time that Calatrava opened his first practice of architecture and engineering in Zurich, Switzerland. Throughout his career, Calatrava has received numerous honorary doctorate degrees ranging from technical science to philosophy. He has also claims membership to various organizations from the Schweizerische Ingenieur- und Architektenverein (Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects) to Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos).

The aseismic design process for foundations is a very broad activity requiring the synthesis of insight,

What is an architect? Throughout the years, the architecture profession has been seen to be questioned. Many theorists have debated the functionality and point of views of different forms in regards to this question. These perceptions of the architect are still being written at the present moment. These statements refer to a meaning that is perceived and read on a global scale. It is still unclear who has the correct solution or whether it might appear. This paper will look into two contemporary writers that examine the form of the architect within their point of view. These writers were chosen due to their recent works on the matter at hand. First, Peggy Deamer, a Professor of Architecture and Assistant Dean at Yale University, examines the architecture in the essence of the profession. She looks into the contributions of the architect and their work and the utopia of the profession. On the other hand, Alicia Carrio, an Argentinian architect and active member of a cultural and social organization in Malaga, Spain. Her writing examines the social role of the architect and the need to provide to the social aspect of the profession. This paper will look into this two point of view and comprehend their meaning of the architect.

When people hear the word “architecture” people think of enormous structures in cities that are hundreds, and sometimes thousands of feet tall. Others may think of quaint buildings that are in rural England. In this paper I will mainly be referring to commercial building inside of major cities. However, this does not mean that all ideas that I present are limited to those buildings. All buildings serve as public art in their own way, and I believe that architecture is the most important form.

The most crucial aspect is the spatial aspect of shape grammars that enabled its implementation in architectural theory and design framework. Application of shape grammar in architectural theory and design had a history four decades long before computational tools were developed.