Some images from last lecture

from 'How Designers Think' by Bryan Lawson

Design - the jargon - edited

TIME SPACE MOVEMENT TECHNOLOGY SITE PROGRAMME PRECEDENT BRIEF COLLAGE PRACTICE OCCUPATION VISION MATERIAL COMPOSITION POLITICAL PLAN STRUCTURAL BUILDING OBJECT TEXTURE LIGHT PLACE DESIRE PERSPECTIVE EXPERIENTIAL VIRTUAL CONVERSATION CONSUMPTION ECONOMIC POWER KNOWLEDGE AUTHENTICITY SECTION AESTHETIC ACTUAL HEURISTIC GEOMETRY ZOOM TRANSLATION DETAIL SURFACE POINT SOLID MODEL METHOD DISTANCE CITY BOUNDARY SHAPE ELEMENT CHANGE EDUCATION DREAM SEMANTICS TECHNIQUE ALIENATION MAPPING SYNTAX METHODOLOGY IMMERSION RHYTHM ANALYSIS EPISTEMOLOGY TRANSPARENCY TECTONICS REFLECTIVE ACCOMMODATION SURVEY SCHEDULE PROJECTION TERRITORY FICTION TRANSLATION QUANTUM PROJECTION AURAL DURATION DECONSTRUCTION LIMIT URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL ECOLOGICAL SEMANTIC EXISTENTIAL LIQUID UNITARY IDEOLOGY FOLD SOLID FINITE ARCHITECTURAL INQUIRY ORIENTATION MODES DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION THEMES STRATEGIES FORMAL NARRATIVE RANDOM REFINE TEST COMBINE IDEA PROCESS CONTEXT ISSUES PROBLEMS PLANNING SKILLS TIME EQUIPMENT BUDGET RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE CONTENTS SITE CLIMATE PLACE LANDSCAPE HISTORY INFLUENCE MODERN MEMORY CONSTRUCTION INVENTION SUSTAINABILITY STRUCTURE SCALE IMAGE LAYERS PRINCIPLES ZEITGEIST FUNCTION TIMELINE PROJECT CONTRIBUTORS ANCIENT CLASSICAL MEDIEVAL RENAISSANCE BAROQUE ENLIGHTENMENT PREFABRICATION POST-PRODUCTION EDIT AUDIT CONTEMPORARY REALISATION REINVENTION PRIORI MEANING ENGINEERING ART ORNAMENT FAÇADE SIGN SYMBOL CULTURAL LOGIC TRADITION CONTROL SURVEILLANCE FOLLY UTOPIA EXPOSURE INDEX DESIGN MAKING LEARNING BEAUTY TRUTH FEAR 

Creative Process

There is No specific Beginning
There is  No specific End
There is No specific Order
the Process can begin from Anywhere
it can go in any direction
but the most of the Stages
will be there in a Creative Process

Fundamentals of Architecture

TOA Y4 - 2014 - Model Answers

Lecture Programme: TOA - Level Four 2011

1.       Introduction

Introduction to architectural theory, language and thought.

Fundamentals of Architectural Design

2.       The Placing of Architecture:

Site

Orientation

Climate

Materials

Places and spaces

Understanding the city

Understanding the landscape

Perception, memory and understanding

3.       The Architectural Design Project

The Project

The Brief

The Concept

The Analysis

The Design Process

The Details Development

The Finished Building

The ‘system’ of design

4.       The Critique

The critique of the Design Project

The critique of the Design Process

The critique of the Crit

5.       The Phenomenon of Architecture

Types of theories in architectural thought

Explanatory theories

Basic concepts

Generalisations

Schemes of classifications

6.       The Language of Architecture

The Art of Architecture and embodied four kinds of persons - Architectus Ingenito, Architectus Sumptuarius, Architectus Manuarius and Architectus Verborum

The place of language within complex social practices

7.       The Architecture ‘System’

The Architecture ‘system’ and its parts

The Fashion System vs. the Architecture System

The complexity of the Architecture System

The Image and the Commentary

The Image: The Photograph and the Drawing

8.       The Language of Modern Architecture

The Elements of modern architectural language and their meaning

The limits of language

The place of language within social practice

9.       Language and Drawing

The Drawing and the Critique of the architectural drawing

Architecture without drawing

10.   Contemporary Architectural Thought

Contemporary theorists and their theories

11.   Early traditions and theoreticians

Traditional theories and contemporary theories compared

12.   Student Presentations and Discussion

Revision

Some References:

The psychology of space – David Canter

A pattern Language – Christopher Alexander

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture – Robert Venturi & Dennis Scott Brown

The Image of the city – Kevin Lynch

Learning from Las Vegas - Robert Venturi, Dennis Scott Brown & Steven Zenour

The Timeless Way of Building – Christopher Alexander

Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism – Fredric Jameson

The Manhattan Transcripts – Bernard Tschumi

Delirious New York – Rem Koolhaas

The End of the Classical: the end of the end , the end of the beginging – Peter Eisenmann

open source software for designers and architects

We have established a new Blog dedicated to propagate the use of open source or free software packages for designers, architects and students. The ultimate aim is to migrate from expensive CAD and other design packages to free or reasonably priced software packages. The blog will attempt to introduce useful software packages / links to anyone who is interested, Also, the blog would act as a forum to discuss ideas and issues related to the software that we will be talking about and may be even as the platform to introduce new open source / free packages.

Trust you will try out some of these packages and will provide valuable feedback.

We are open for ideas and suggestions.