Lecture 4

Arch 200c 2012 Fall

Course Arch 200c
Date 2012/10/11
Learning Objectives Here we examine how designers have historically used means of representation, not simply of allographic tools of their work, but as design tools which in turn become means of experiencing their designs. Design becomes the means by which habits of seeing are shaped and expressed.
Agenda
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Uses Tool(s)

Lecture

Readings

  • Sergei Eisenstein, “Montage and Architecture (ca 1938),” Assemblage 10 (1989): 111-131.
  • Stan Allen, “Mies’s Theater of Effects: the new national gallery, Berlin,” in Practice: architecture, technique and representation (Psychology Press, 2000), 71-85.
  • Peter Cook, “Drawing and Motive,” in Drawing: the motive force of architecture (Chichester, West Sussex, England: Wiley, John & Sons, 2008), 10-28.
  • Peter Cook, “Drawing and Strategy,” in Drawing: the motive force of architecture (Chichester, West Sussex, England: Wiley, John & Sons, 2008), 29-55
  • Kurt Forster, “Schinkel’s Panoramic Planning of Central Berlin,” in Modulus 16, The University of Virginia Architectural Review, vol. 16 (University of Virginia, 1983), 28-41.