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.