Through the analysis of Architectural, Landscape and Urban Case Studies this module aims to reveal the relationship between theory and practice, between the intention and the reality. By examining an Architectural, Landscape or Urban Project in detail the student is exposed to various analytical techniques that can be applied to other works. The objective in exploring the data is to identify the intentions of the author and expose the realities of its execution. From inception to post completion the student is made aware of decisions and methods used by designers in their work and also their critical reception. Key data such as sketches, models, drawings, written material, photographs, biographies, critiques will be used for source material. Various techniques will be used to draw sense from the data and conclusions reached. From this foundation the student is engaged in a project analysis; gathering the extant data, carrying out a literature review on that data, writing a critique to formulate their own over view of the material. This along with compositional analysis they complete an essay/dissertation on a selected work over the semester.
Landscape – Structure and Non Structure
Sea Ranch, MLTW Kingo Housing, Helsingor, Jorn Utzon
Architecture – Site & Place, Rome v Greece
Villa Mariea, Alvar Aalto/Villa Alder & De Vore Houses, Louis Kahn/Farnsworth House, Mies/Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright
Urbanism – Anti-historical
Chandigarh , Le Corbusier/Ensache Barcelona, Ildefonso Cerda
Urbanism – Failure
Ballymun, NBA/Pruitt Igoe, Minoru Yamasaki
Architecture - Personal to the communal
Orphanage Amsterdam, Aldo van Eyck/Convent, Pennsylvania, Louis Kahn
Urbanism – Old New Urbanism
Poundbury, Leon Krier/Seaside , Leon Krier/Portobello, Peter Barber
Urbanism - Critical Regionalism
Urbino, Giancarlo di Carlo/Monte Carasso , Luigi Snozzi
Architecture - Sacred Space & Symbol
St. Ignatius Chapel, Steven Holl/Il Danteum, Terragni/Barcelona Pavilion, Mies van der Rohe
Architecture – Classical underpinnings
Kimbell Museum, Louis Kahn/Esherick House, Louis Kahn/Vanna Venturi House/Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier
Landscape – Bound Space
Central Park, Frederick Law Olmstead/Woodland Cemetery, Asplund & Lewerentz
Architecture – Conservation & Adaptation
Castlevecchio, Carlo Scarpa/Neues Museum, Berlin, David Chipperfield
Architecture at Work in the contemporary world
Dutch Embassy Berlin, Rem Koolhaas / OMA/Lloyd’s London, Richard Rogers/Hong Kong Shankhai Bank, Norma Foster
Crystal Palace , Joseph Paxton/De Rotterdam,, Rem Koolhaas / OMA/WTC NY, Minoru Yamasaki
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Self directed learning
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| Other Assessment(s) | 100 |