MEASI Academy of ArchitectureArchitectural Design IV (AR 6514) Batch: 2013

Jul- Dec 2015

Topic: TRIBUTE TO AN ARCHITECT Semester - VSection: A B CDesign Chairs: Ar. Anwar Sheriff Ar. Bharath Ar. BalajiDesign Faculties: Ar. Anjali, Ar. Hariharan Ar. Khalid, Ar. Suresh Ar. Thingom, Ar. Suhasini

Stage A: Study part

Architecture is a crystallization of different approaches to a similar problem. The below quotations represent different angles of consideration. Each architect responds with their own system of priorities in their own language to a given problem.

Obeying laws, the maker works like his creator: not obeying law, he is such a fool as heaps a pile of stones and calls it a church. - George Macdonald 1893

Architecture is open to to analysis like any other aspect of experience, and is made more vivid by comparison. Analysis includes the breaking up of architecture into elements……….such disintegration is a process present in all creation and it is essential to understanding.- Robert Venturi –Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you and what exists on land and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see. - Tadao Ando

…create a building that would sparkle like isolated jewels …..connect to form a new kind oflandscape to flow together with….the lives of people - Zaha Hadid

Nature does not present us with an object in monochrome…..for this reason we must colour partly or wholly or in part every architectural element. - Antonio Gaudi

What should our designs try to achieve? We must look beyond the narrow object and ask ourselves: What will be the ecological consequences?- Sir Ove Arup

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Study I: Individual study

Student has to choose one architect to study the architect’s entire range of works with focus on a specific project recommended for study. Each student has to arrive at a summation of the architect’s vocabulary, style and design process through the study. Following points need to be addressed in the study.

How does the architect approach design? In what manner is this philosophy translated into his/her architecture? Are there any significant elements in use? What is their approach to spatial design? What materials and construction type is used? What structural system is adhered to? What basic ideology forms the platform from which their design approach is formulated?

The entire outcome of the study must be through manual presentation. Medium of presentation is to be decided by individual student.

Study II: Group study

A group of 5-6 student have to choose any one typology of building (i.e. house, office ,church, and museum ) from the list provided and study how different architects approach that typology. Outcome of the study should be discussed and presented in groups. Presentation can be done in any digital media.

Stage B: Application part

At the end of above stages, student will be given a time problem in which the design philosophy of the chosen architect is to be applied. The topic of the time problem will be introduced on the day of the time problem.

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LIST OF ARCHITECTS AND BULDING TYPES

Building Type: HOUSE

1. Peter Eisenman House no 6

2. Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth House

3. Aalvar Aalto Villa Mairea

4. Geoffrey Bawa De Silva House

5. Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House

Building type: OFFICE BUILDING

1. Mario Botta TCS Hyderabad

2. Ken Yeang Wisma Mesniaga

3. Norman Foster St Mary’s Axe “Gherkin”

4. Raj Rewal Engineer India House

5. Skidmore,Owings and Merill John Hancock

Building type : CHURCH

1. Oscar Neimeyer Cathedral at Brasillia

2. Le Corbusier Ronchamp

3. Gaudi Sagrada Familia

4. Felix Candela Church of Santa Teresa

5. Charles Correa Church Salvacao

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Building type: MUSEUM

1. Frank Gehry Bilbao Museum

2. Louis Kahn Kimbell Art gallery and Museum

3. Renzo Piano New York Museum

4. I. M. Pei Louvre

5. Tadao Ando Fort worth Museum

PROGRAM SCHEDULE:

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S.NO DATES SUBMISSIONS

1 28.08.15 Introduction of design exercise

2 04.09.15 Each student has to select/choose an architect for the study

and submit a brief background and the sources of study

material, his works etc.

3 11.09.15 Study 1 outline submission with model

15.09.15 Study 2 outline submission

4 21.09.15 Study 1 final submission with model

5 28.09.15 &20.09.15 Part B: Application Part (time problem with model)

6 05.10.15 Study 2 group presentations