augmented landscapes

"Scope and Scape"
"The scope of landscape-the careful view or examination-and the scape-the expansive scene-provide a duality that is employed by architecture and experienced by its occupants. This relationship can be considered as the miniature to the gigantic as defined by the cultural theorist Susan Stewart:
Our most fundamental relation to the gigantic is articulated in our relation to landscape, our immediate and lived relation to nature as it "surrounds" us...We move through the landscape; it does not move through us..."

-From the book: Augmented Landscapes by Smout/Allen

2 quotes

"The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony."
-Alexander Pope

“The architectural drawing is transitive in nature, uniquely capable of producing
something new from something else. Far from being ideal constructions, architectural
drawings are marked by their contact with a messy & inconsistent reality. Representation is
not something added onto a building, but that which makes it possible in the first place.”
-Stan Allen

Lecture Wednesday

Michel Rojkind will be giving a lecture Wednesday afternoon in English Basement 001. Please attend. The following link shows one of his latest built projects.

Nestle Chocolate Museum

Review Friday

Just a reminder that Friday is a review. You should have the following posted on your wall space and ready to present by 9:00A.M.:

1) Complete Final Set of Physical Object Drawings (axon, plans, sections, elevations)
2) Complete Set of Physical Site Drawings (axon, small site plan, larger site plan)
3) Morphological Diagrams of device (how water moves through the object)
4) Diagrams showing relationship of how water gets to your object and how water gets to your site
5) 12 study collages
6) 3 finalized collages

Organize your wall space so that it creates a dialog of your process from beginning to end. If there isn't enough space in the classroom, there is more room on each side of the hallway.

Collage examples

Collage examples from Stan Allen's Colossal urbanism.