Your Identity is important...

It is important to identify the students accurately at all levels in all academic matters such as Crits, Exams, Presentations etc,. Therefore, you are reminded to CLEARLY WRITE DOWN YOUR NAME (as given in the Attendance Register) AND ADMISSION NUMBER when required to do so. Please take this matter seriously as not doing so is causing numerous problems.

Construction Management Lecture Series

Construction Management Lecture series will commence on 30.04.2011 for those who are taking the elective. The lecture will be from 10.30am - 12.30pm. Please confirm the venue with your batch reps.

10.03.2011 - EXAM OVER...! What next...?

Now that your exams are done for this semester, what do you plan to do next?
It is a bit sad that you have to begin the Second Semester works on the 11th of March (Damn, No 'Break'!). Trust you will be able to make the most of your New Year break.

Any thoughts about your 'First Semester'?

Any suggestions about the 'Second'?

Hopefully you will get in to your 'Thesis Mood' soon while engaging positively with the next Design Project.

SCGP - Final Crit 15.02.2011

SCGP - Final Crit is scheduled for 15.02.2011.


Minimum submission criteria:

• Layout Drawings
• All Floor Plans including Roof Plan (scale 1:400/200/100)
• Cross Section and Longitudinal Section (scale 1:200/100)
• Detailed Section (scale 1:50)
• Elevations (scale 1:200/100)
• 3D imagery
• Final Model(s)

All Drawings should be completed and to a high level of presentation standard.

All Drawings and Models should be submitted and Rubber Stamped by 9.00 am on the day of the crit.

Late submissions will not be entertained.

Note: 
It is regrettable that, at Fourth Year Level the tutors have to provide a list of minimum submission criteria as above. By this time, all students should be able to decide for themselves what are essential materials to convey their Design to a Cirt panel. Hopefully this condition may improve in future.

Teaching Design : Design Teaching

Design and Teaching Design
Interesting Read: http://www.igs.net/~mascott/design/design.htm

TOA Revision: Suggested Reading

now that it has been said, can we agree to disagree?

Here are Some More Suggested Readings for Revision and Awareness:

• Paul Rudolph: The Six Determinants of Architectural Form
• Christopher Alexander: Notes on the Synthesis of From
• Philip Johnson: The Seven Crutches of Modern Architecture
• Charles Jencks: 13 Propositions of Post-Modern Architecture
• Mark Wigley: Deconstructivist Architecture
• Peter Eisenman: The End of the Classical; End of the End, the End of the Beginning
• Zaha Hadid: Randomness vs Arbitrariness
• Bernard Tschumi: The Manhattan Transcripts
• Daniel Libeskind: End Space

TOA Revision Lectures - Notice 30.01.2011

Please note the following:


Three (3) lecture sessions should give us sufficient time to 'Revise' the subject area. Therefore, we will have the scheduled lecture on Wednesday afternoon (1). Is it possible to hold a session on Thursday morning at 8.00am (2) and another on Saturday afternoon (3)....?


Here are some past / model questions for your discussion:

Critically discuss the ‘intuitive design process vs. Intellectual design process’ in relation to architectural design.

“Architecture is a ‘Problem Solving Process’...”
Critically discuss the above statement.

“Architecture is heavily influenced by the zeitgeist (the spirit of the age)...”
In the above statement ‘zeitgeist’ refers to social and cultural phenomena.
Discuss the above statement in relation to late Twentieth (20th) and early Twenty-first (21st) century architectural examples. (You may select a few examples either Sri Lankan or international or both)

Discuss;
‘Design Generators’ in Architectural design
‘Spatial Progression’ with reference to architecture of Geoffrey Bawa
‘Architecture as Art’
Manual Drawing vs. Computer Aided Drawing
The Design ‘Crit’ as a method of evaluating architectural design in architectural education
Modernism vs. Post Modernism in architecture
Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Joseph Rykwert: Ornament is no Crime
Sim Van Der Ryn and Sterling Bunnell: Integral Design
Philip Johnson: Te Seven Crutches of Modern Architecture
Team Zoo/ Atelier Zo: Principles of Design
Rem Koolhaas: Bigness – or the Problem of Large