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With the renewed interested in fabrication a result of the short-circuiting that has been made available through digitally driven fabrication techniques together with advances in composite materials; the ways in which we think about standardization and prefabrication in architecture are being challenged. This new ability to completely integrate; from design idea to fabrication and erection will be the focus of this course.
Explored from a design perspective, this seminar will look at both new materials* - in particular composites - with new fabrication techniques and their real and potential interface with architecture. The focus here is not simply on the new materials themselves; but rather opportunities and new ways of making about the fact that these materials cannot be separated from their performance and construction.
The format for the studio will be presentations by and discussions with a number of guests who are thinkers and innovators in fabrication and new materials technology such as: Eric Goetz (inventor/boat builder of fabrication techniques for Americas Cup racing sailboats), Bill Massie (Massey Architecture has pioneered work with digitally milled formwork), Edwin Chan (principal with Frank Gehry Architects who worked on both Guggenheim Bilbao and the Conde Naste Cafeteria both project which employed digitally driven fabrication techniques), Dave Hirsch (inventor/sailmaker with North Sails who pioneered fabrication methods for large scale state-of-the-art sailmaking), Chee Pearlman (design columnists for the New York Times and a design and editorial consultant for a number of companies and cultural organizations, from 1993 to 2000 she was Editor in Chief of I.D. Magazine). Peter Testa (Architect, presently working on a new approach to construct a high rise building using woven carbon fibers)
Final Projects will be the production of a fabrication scenario performance and construction, utilizing both a technique and material relationship positioned within an architectural project.
Selected Bibliography:
J.E. Gordon, "The New Artificial Materials," The New Science of Strong Materials (Sci American Lib) New York 1988.
__________, "The Form and Diversity of Structures," The New Science of Strong Materials (Sci American Lib) New York 1988.
__________, "Animal Soft Tissues," The New Science of Strong Materials (Sci American Lib) New York 1988.
Jeff Kipnis and Annetta Massie, Mood River. exhibition catalogue, The Wexner Center for the Arts 2002.
Michel Foucault, "Classifying," The Order of Things (Random House) 1970.
Reyner Banham, "The Factory Aesthetic," Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (The Architectural Press) 1960.
_____________, "Conclusion: Functionalism and Technology," Theory and Design in the First
Machine Age.
Walter Gropius, "Standardization," The New Architectural and the Bauhaus.
Kenneth Frampton, Chapter 1: Introduction - "On the Origin, Scope and Relevance of Tectonic Form," Studies in Tectonic Culture.
Andrea Kahn, "The Invisible Mask," Drawing Building Text (Princeton Architectural Press) New York 1991.
Georges Teyssot, "Interior Landscapes," Lotus Documents 8 (Electa Spa) Milan 1987.
Toshiko Mori, Editor. "Immaterial / Ultramaterial" architecture, design, and material,
Harvard Design School, 2002
Amato Ivan, "Stuff" the Material the World is Made Of. New York: Basic Books,1997
Ann Bremner, Ryan Shafer, Editor, "Mood River", Wexner Center for the Arts Ohio State University, 2002
Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design. Paola Antonelli ed. The Museum of Modern Art. 1995
Bechthold, Griggs, Steinberg, Editors "New technologies in Architecture" Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing Techniques, Cambridge: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2000
Testa, P., Weiser, D., "Emergent Structural Morphology," AD Architectural Design, Special Issue, Contemporary Techniques in Architecture, Guest Editor Ali Rahim, Academy Editions (London) Vol. 72, No. 1 (January 2002): 12-16.
Bruce Lindsey, "Digital Gehry", Princeton Architectural Press, 2002
Seminar Schedule
Date
Event + Readings
Guest Lecture
January 20
Martin Luther King Day
January 27
Introduction
R-New Technologies in Architecture,
Mutant materials (**)
February 3
Visit to Material Connexion
February 10
Material research presentations (*)
February 17
Material research presentations (*)
Initial Project statement
R-Mood River Designated Desire
Chee Pearlman
February 24
Material research presentations (*)
Bill Massie
March 3
Bill McDonald
March 10
Eric Goetz
March 17
Spring Break
March 24 12-2pm
Mid term Review
March 31
R-Digital Gehry
Edwin Chan
April 7
R-Testa, P., Weiser, D., "Emergent Structural Morphology,"
Peter Testa
April 14
Dave Hirsch
April 21
Project Crits / Sign-up
May 5
Final Presentation 10am-2pm
(*) Additional specific readings for each class will be published at a later date.
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