Thursday, 19 September 2013

thank you for week one



















Thank you all for a very inspiring first week in Barcelona, with some fine sketching !
On a dropboxlink TW oploaded some of his sketches: click here to view. (some of your sketches became much better and more intense during the week than my own btw. :-)  When back from Barcelona, please scann and upload all pages from your own sketchbook  of the analytical architectural sketching exercise in same manner during your spare time during the second workshop with Andrea S. 

All the best for fine work on week two in Barcelona with Trudi's exercises. If possible, keep sharpening your skills in analytical architectural sketching in your black sketchbook whenever possible.

Regarding buying parallell rulers in Barcelona: there is a shop in Calle de Ferran # 23 " Belles Arte Ferran" selling them for about 10€ for a 100 cm ruler - it is a fine bargain. See if you can get an adjustable triangle also.  Best T.

Sunday, 8 September 2013

barcelona week one

 

welcome to barcelona !  as informed by cristian, we will meet in front of the  Mercat de Santa Catherina at 09:15 with your sketchbooks for about 15 minutes of a short intro to the ways of producing analytical architectural drawings. magnus will join us by 09:30 to start the tour. below is the programme for the first week. looking forward seing you all in front of the mercat. (will also distribute the pencils and pencil sharpeners :-) best T (click on images or text for enlargement )

Wednesday, 4 September 2013

barcelona urban abductions #1


















above is the template for making your short "barcelona urban abductions" during your spare time this week. regarding the texts: try using google maps/streetview (if possible) to describe the characteristics of the urban space you chose...be mater-of-fact-tish but you certainly could experiment with the prose in more humoristic way(s), if you dare... ;-) as long as the space get described and communicated so that it becomes "desirable"...

below is the assigment text (same as in the dropbox)

next post will be about the shedule for the first week in barcelona.

Monday, 2 September 2013

sketching next week




















like last year, while in barcelona, we will all (yes, teachers too) use the A5 sketchbooks (that you all should - or soon will- have received from cristian ) for producing analytical, architectural sketches.
we will thus have a  meeting every evening to assess the work produced, get aquainted with the procedures (none, or very few words, just simple black and white drawings (!!!); the sketches are meant to supplement photos you would otherwise make, and focus on simple architectural issues ranging from smaller (urban) objets to exploded views of urban space(s). during our stay we will attempt to refine this way of working, so that it also can become a useful tool in any future excercise.

thomas has oploaded 3 examples of sketchsbooks with analytical architectural sketches: looking at corbu's ronchamp, la tourette and petite maison here, a study trip to finland lots of aalto here, and from last year's  trip to barcelona > click here;


except for last year's example, you can note, there are no real urban situations in the examples. this is something that we will examine while drawing in barcelona. ["..note there are no people or objects/products other than what is to be understood as urban spatial/architectural details, overviews or conditions in the sketch-book-examples. these should be analytical drawings in the sense that they are immediate, not formed or rendered, just registered quickly and intuitevely. numbers and letters as relevant layers of info are allowed...."]
remember to bring your sketchbook with you ! (and also bring a private one, so as to have a possibility to write and note.) 8B and Filia will be provide by thomas in barcelona.

regarding observation(s): here is a short excerpt from georges perec  (compulsory)

more tomorow here on the blog on the short and exiting barcelona abduction excercise that cristian will introduce you in the morning.

Monday, 19 August 2013

introduction / readings












reading list preliminary:

On architecture 
Steen Ejler Rasmussen: Experiencing Architecture X
Aldo Rossi: The Architecture of the City
Juhani Pallasmaa: The Eye of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses X                   
Steven Holl: Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture
      
On urban matter  

A.E.J Morris: History of Urban Form before the industrial revolution 
Camillo Sitte: The Birth of Modern City Planning +
                    City Planning According to Artistic Principles 

Simon Sadler: The situationist City
Kevin Lynch The Image of the City
Colin Rowe: Collage City     
Gordon Cullen: Concise townscape
 

On OuLiPo / creative foci /phenomenology          
Georges Perec:  An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
                        Species of Spaces
Italo Calvino: The invisible Cities
                    Mr. Palomar

Gaston Bachelard : The Poetics of Space
                    

Raymond Queneau: Exercises in Style
                    

All books available in the new BAS library
 















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