Hi Folks

When you hand us your portfolios this tuesday- please include a print out of your blog so far!

A good exhibition

Now you are all drawing furiously- we recommend the present exhibition (free) at the Architectural Association (36 Bedford Sq- behind Centre Point Bus No1 from London Rd). The exhibition shows hand drawn work from the sixties and seventies, and as well as tantalizing you with architectural potentials, shows drawings done by mere mortals just like you.

Thursday 12th

Hi Everybody. 

We are anxious you complete and pin-up your 'As Existing' drawings - done on layout paper to scale without showing dimensions (the scale shows dimensions!)- this Thursday.

You need these drawings before you begin design investigations on paper.

Bring your project in tomorrow

Hi Everybody. I know it's short notice but we think we will do a short disco tomorrow. That would allow us some more time to look at your project progress. Therefore, please bring your 'drawings as existing'/'project ideas' in tomorrow.

 

Session 3rd November

This is the 'Gardeners House' by K. F. Shinkel in Potsdam. The Prince liked to relax with his friends (and the gardeners) in this complex arrangement of almost vernacular buildings (hence showing his sophistication- ref: Jamie Oliver) pergolas and landscape. The main axis runs horizontally through the landscape and the tiny bathhouse-symbolic of course of the importance and control of water. 
This is the Neoclassical painting by Claude 'Man being attacked by a snake'. It metaphorically illustrates the relationship between terror and distance, with the 'safety' or 'civilization' of architecture in the distance. 

Session Tuesday 27th Oct

We are all going out on a visit to a site in London, making use of the good weather we hope.

Please make sure you arrive at the studio on time in the morning, and be equipped with cameras, sketchbooks, pencils, some kind of measuring equipment (a 3m tape?) money enough for underground to Hampstead, subsistence etc and brains.

In the meantime we hope you have equipped yourself with the basic orthographic drawing equipment for use when you get home, basically:

drawing board (in production)

set square

clutch pencil and sharpener (or other)

architects scale rule

pad of layout paper

sheet of graph paper and acetate for use with your drawing board

masking tape

Session Tuesday 20th Oct

Tomorrow we're going to talk about drawing. I shall be talking about sketching because I was never very good at orthographic drawing. I shall also be looking back a while to '84, when I spent three months on a Moto Guzzi 500 traveling Europe and compiled a sketchbook of what I did. Twenty five years on I'll show you the drawings for the first time.

This picture is of me a little earlier- growing up with a Honda 250 G5.

Materials

The lintel over this window is curious. You would expect the bricks to 'want' to fall off. So there is much more to the phrase 'truth to materials' than meets the eye.

This is the villa by Mies van de Rohe in Berlin 1933.

This is an image of sculptor Robert Smithson in the early 1970's. He is contemplating the molecular structure of glass and coal vs the appearance of glass and coal (coal looks irregular but is regular, and glass is the opposite).

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Please check we've published your correct address! 

We'll be introducing an extra component to your observation project tomorrow afternoon, for presentation the following Thursday 8th October.

The brief is relatively straight forward:

Select 16 of your photographs, print them, square them, and mount them with precision in a 4x4 grid with equal space between each (we call this a tartan grid). Obviously you don't want the grid to become too large so keep the individual images manageably small.

Draw a map of your habitual walk. Remember that what is represented on a map is entirely the preserve of those who commission and make it, in this case you take on the role of both. Again make sure your map is not too large, for it must be mounted or printed beneath your grid of 16 photographs and on the same sheet. Make sure you draw your map with great care, no-matter what you highlight on it.

This project is about being precise in presentation.

Session One: Observation

How many things in this picture would indicate that the location was Berlin? This session questions your powers of observation. How much time do you take to really look at the world around you? Some of us spend hours each day doing just this, listening, looking, thinking. Of course, as a generation, you have been brought up in environments where such passive activity is largely INCONCEIVABLE, but it is a practice you will have to cultivate to be successful.

Your task is to take a walk you habitually take (take it by yourself), something you hardly think about doing, and suddenly, to be self aware that you are doing it, that you have been asked as an architecture student to look at stuff again- why, how, and what. You might find yourself thinking, suddenly, about almost anything; bricks, puddles, fashions, signs whatever. Note the experience as a short piece of writing (less than 150 words) on your newly created blog. 

Go back the next day (shouldn't be difficult- you habitually do this walk) and photograph particular moments or materials you've had percolating in your head from the previous day's thinking.