I am a little confused on architecture.
I would change my major to architecute. So I have some questions
1. What basic knowledge and courses are necessary to study in Architecture?
2. What theory is important in Architecture design field? What are commonly used methods and tools?
steventeen, god is a very difficult creature to catch a glimpse of, let alone in its entirety. maybe if you leave a tangerine jam topped chocolate cupcake on your doorstep , you might be able to coax it out.
i hope someone would just offer a sincere answer that you can ingest. what a jaded snarky lot.
an introduction to architecture will typically involve some very basic three-dimensional play and formal analysis. in addition, it is usually a sort of boot camp in the rigorous development and case-building around an idea of making and why to make. in a nutshell, you will attempt to answer regarding your own work: 'what it this about and why?'
theory will be an extension of that question, but it can go a multitude of directions depending on your school, particular faculty, and your own predilections.
2. What theory is important in Architecture design field? What are commonly used methods and tools?
Design is also to route the manufactoring, a new simple and 100 pct. digital projected framework, avaible cheap and strong with today's efficient production documented with a 3D model, this is also prone to last. Except architecture is to be framed within rigid lattrice boxes.
One house one material, how can that fail !
We need a lattrice to develob new green materials, cheaper and better than today's, Why not jettison all the old crafts, forget dovetails and fine carpenter furniture ; do that by replacing the need for special fittings and a dusin of various materials, replace all with a framework lattrice and try do it serious, not just for the looks. Side effects will be cheap new technikes and safe houses, is the current style realy that appriciated ? Architecture need a revolution and computed building parts are cheap. Ask any hangaround this fora ; anyone has some 3D model anyone can slice that into real building parts.
And add floors at varying hight plus walls where and forms by choice, build-in furniture, Go in one with the building's walls or interlock within the lattrice. Replace Designer furniture with furniture designed when the house are designed or made to be replaced later with a side efftect.
i have to admit to not understanding noctilucent's comment.
no, steventeen, the project should NOT be about yourself. too many students personalize/internalize their projects when, in fact, though they are created out of your experience and point-of-view, they must be allowed to stand on their own. the 'what is this about and why' should be an indelible part of the project, separate from you as the author.
below is a link to a student's site with his solutions to the Cooper Union home test. These problems, and the students solutions might give you an idea of the types of thinking and problem-solving that the field of architecture tries to cultivate and utilize. There are more straight-forward, grounded curricula, which concentrate on history, some basic theory and the mechanics of construction, but if you have an idea of becoming a visionary in the field, or seeing what all the current excitement is about, the link below may give you some insight into "architectural education" today.
the architectural work would be a result, an object, of a "what is this about and why" (assuming "this" stands for a certain idea to be pursued)
but since you use this phrase "regarding the work", you short-circuit "this" (in "what is this about and why") to "work" collapsing the end result (object) with the process heading towards the end result (subject). apropos your usage of "regarding" then, the phrase is read as follows : what is the work about and why. this might be a question one posits at an advanced stage where the work itself might be questioned, but knowing that the case is that of a beginner (in process and by nature), your words start to flow in a tautological traffic between one (the architectural work as an expected object but syntactically transformed into a subject vis your usage of "regarding") and the other (the process as an expected subject but syntactically rendered likewise into an object)
however, by having your post not admit to its owntautology, the crucial sign, the stamp that signals equivalency, implicit interchangeability, between the two poles is withheld. and what is tautology but its own unavoidable obviousness, an implicit self-acknowledgement of interchangeability? therefore, amputated, a missing link. Since i reinstated the sign, I am that missing link :o)
yet another possible meaning of amp. taut., perhaps one more becoming, is that you augmented this new inquisitive steventeen being’s confusion. In her mind, you didn’t answer her, you only reflected a larger image of her confusion back into her mind (therefore also her misreading of your words). Answer and question become interchangeable but without the same missing link noted above.
that’s all I meant; i usually expect quite a strict seperation between subject and object from you. u have that kind of clarity.
oh geez. ok, i see the question, but i don't have an answer for it.
architecture is an iterative process. there is something you make, to which you respond, make again, respond again. i don't know which comes first, or it's different every time. so what is 'this' about/why could refer to a 'this' that is either the problem at hand or one of several successive proposals. the subject/object is less important than the intentionality...at least in early architectural education.
and by extending the effect of your words, one can say that it is an aim of the architectural education that terms such as subject and object, action and effect, are clarified by the student for herself in a field where these terms are, to say the least, not informed by an imperative scientific or mathematical relation but rather by a mishmash of culture (art, program and function..etc), ergonomics, technology (construction, merdia, etc) and personal inclinations. this makes the very moment of defining subject and object, or action and effect a quite esoteric one (after all, there is a gehry and there was an albert kahn: all is allowed in architecture as long as its architecture). what the architectural mind excels at then, is, chiselling away to clearly define and articulate consistency (both physical and mental). an intended consistency (you say intentionality) that, though esoteric in its very basis, allows one to design and talk about space, structure, tectonics, material assemblage..etc.
therefore, telling or showing a beginner how to begin is somewhat of an oxymoron without the begginer actually, architecturally, beginning. therefore, steventeen, this post really is of no help to you.
and take a camera and go visit some buildings, whatever you like, maybe walk around the downtown of a cool city and do some personal photo essays of buildings, or sketch stuff in a sketchbook, with respect to things like solid and void, rhythms, different scales, material, color, planes, textures, daylight, acoustic quality, etc.
if you're thinking about applying to architecture school, you could use some stuff like that in a portfolio...
dont try to rush yourself, if you are interested, try to find the answers on your own, through research, doing, making, thinking, and reflecting, and, if you really get interested, you will do this for a long long long time,, i dont think anyone here will give you an answer that will satisfy you,,
and, yeah, language is definately not going to give you an answer, atleast not on its own
in my first ever lecture about architecture in my first year at school, during orientation week, the professor (who later on became my thesis advisor, freaky, i know) told us, what we are going to do for the rest of our lives is:
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I am a little confused on architecture.
I would change my major to architecute. So I have some questions
1. What basic knowledge and courses are necessary to study in Architecture?
2. What theory is important in Architecture design field? What are commonly used methods and tools?
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it is very cute. just keep reading
so reading what?
or do you have some recommendation?
delirious new york
Don't read anything until you get some ideas by yourself.
Now, there, in architecture, are too many bluffing.
Stay away from them.
architecture is dead
hehehe..... had this shirt in my shop for a few weeks
b
staggering inefficient worthless old homes and multitudes of new tract trash too
and high tech expensive additive facilities
oh and boxed vacant high density multi family
so I am really puzzled that what I would do....just thinking my own understanding of design?Would I learn from some experience from the past theory?
so I am really puzzled that what I would do....just thinking my own understanding of design?Would I learn from some experience from the past theory?
theory is dead
death is just a theory
SO WHAT IS ALIVE?
steventeen, god is a very difficult creature to catch a glimpse of, let alone in its entirety. maybe if you leave a tangerine jam topped chocolate cupcake on your doorstep , you might be able to coax it out.
i hope someone would just offer a sincere answer that you can ingest. what a jaded snarky lot.
an introduction to architecture will typically involve some very basic three-dimensional play and formal analysis. in addition, it is usually a sort of boot camp in the rigorous development and case-building around an idea of making and why to make. in a nutshell, you will attempt to answer regarding your own work: 'what it this about and why?'
theory will be an extension of that question, but it can go a multitude of directions depending on your school, particular faculty, and your own predilections.
2. What theory is important in Architecture design field? What are commonly used methods and tools?
oops, sorry, i forgot to erase your question out of the reply box.
"in a nutshell, you will attempt to answer regarding your own work: 'what it this about and why?'"
an amputated tautology in a nutshell :o)
Steven Ward you really make me a little conscious of the archtetecture.So you mean the process of archi design is something of reflection on yourself?
Steven Ward you really make me a little conscious of the archtetecture.So you mean the process of archi design is something of reflection on yourself?
Design is also to route the manufactoring, a new simple and 100 pct. digital projected framework, avaible cheap and strong with today's efficient production documented with a 3D model, this is also prone to last. Except architecture is to be framed within rigid lattrice boxes.
One house one material, how can that fail !
We need a lattrice to develob new green materials, cheaper and better than today's, Why not jettison all the old crafts, forget dovetails and fine carpenter furniture ; do that by replacing the need for special fittings and a dusin of various materials, replace all with a framework lattrice and try do it serious, not just for the looks. Side effects will be cheap new technikes and safe houses, is the current style realy that appriciated ? Architecture need a revolution and computed building parts are cheap. Ask any hangaround this fora ; anyone has some 3D model anyone can slice that into real building parts.
And add floors at varying hight plus walls where and forms by choice, build-in furniture, Go in one with the building's walls or interlock within the lattrice. Replace Designer furniture with furniture designed when the house are designed or made to be replaced later with a side efftect.
i have to admit to not understanding noctilucent's comment.
no, steventeen, the project should NOT be about yourself. too many students personalize/internalize their projects when, in fact, though they are created out of your experience and point-of-view, they must be allowed to stand on their own. the 'what is this about and why' should be an indelible part of the project, separate from you as the author.
below is a link to a student's site with his solutions to the Cooper Union home test. These problems, and the students solutions might give you an idea of the types of thinking and problem-solving that the field of architecture tries to cultivate and utilize. There are more straight-forward, grounded curricula, which concentrate on history, some basic theory and the mechanics of construction, but if you have an idea of becoming a visionary in the field, or seeing what all the current excitement is about, the link below may give you some insight into "architectural education" today.
the home test
excuse me! her site, not 'his'
the architectural work would be a result, an object, of a "what is this about and why" (assuming "this" stands for a certain idea to be pursued)
but since you use this phrase "regarding the work", you short-circuit "this" (in "what is this about and why") to "work" collapsing the end result (object) with the process heading towards the end result (subject). apropos your usage of "regarding" then, the phrase is read as follows : what is the work about and why. this might be a question one posits at an advanced stage where the work itself might be questioned, but knowing that the case is that of a beginner (in process and by nature), your words start to flow in a tautological traffic between one (the architectural work as an expected object but syntactically transformed into a subject vis your usage of "regarding") and the other (the process as an expected subject but syntactically rendered likewise into an object)
however, by having your post not admit to its owntautology, the crucial sign, the stamp that signals equivalency, implicit interchangeability, between the two poles is withheld. and what is tautology but its own unavoidable obviousness, an implicit self-acknowledgement of interchangeability? therefore, amputated, a missing link. Since i reinstated the sign, I am that missing link :o)
yet another possible meaning of amp. taut., perhaps one more becoming, is that you augmented this new inquisitive steventeen being’s confusion. In her mind, you didn’t answer her, you only reflected a larger image of her confusion back into her mind (therefore also her misreading of your words). Answer and question become interchangeable but without the same missing link noted above.
that’s all I meant; i usually expect quite a strict seperation between subject and object from you. u have that kind of clarity.
oh geez. ok, i see the question, but i don't have an answer for it.
architecture is an iterative process. there is something you make, to which you respond, make again, respond again. i don't know which comes first, or it's different every time. so what is 'this' about/why could refer to a 'this' that is either the problem at hand or one of several successive proposals. the subject/object is less important than the intentionality...at least in early architectural education.
and by extending the effect of your words, one can say that it is an aim of the architectural education that terms such as subject and object, action and effect, are clarified by the student for herself in a field where these terms are, to say the least, not informed by an imperative scientific or mathematical relation but rather by a mishmash of culture (art, program and function..etc), ergonomics, technology (construction, merdia, etc) and personal inclinations. this makes the very moment of defining subject and object, or action and effect a quite esoteric one (after all, there is a gehry and there was an albert kahn: all is allowed in architecture as long as its architecture). what the architectural mind excels at then, is, chiselling away to clearly define and articulate consistency (both physical and mental). an intended consistency (you say intentionality) that, though esoteric in its very basis, allows one to design and talk about space, structure, tectonics, material assemblage..etc.
therefore, telling or showing a beginner how to begin is somewhat of an oxymoron without the begginer actually, architecturally, beginning. therefore, steventeen, this post really is of no help to you.
merdia...hehe.. ça, c'est drôle :op
But I was doing Stella, frankly.
Sterling Prize
working dedication of Architecture in Critical Condition: Which Doctor?
i recommend reading this, it was the book that got me interested:
http://www.amazon.com/Experiencing-Architecture-Steen-Eiler-Rasmussen/dp/0262680025
and take a camera and go visit some buildings, whatever you like, maybe walk around the downtown of a cool city and do some personal photo essays of buildings, or sketch stuff in a sketchbook, with respect to things like solid and void, rhythms, different scales, material, color, planes, textures, daylight, acoustic quality, etc.
if you're thinking about applying to architecture school, you could use some stuff like that in a portfolio...
Tautology can explains nothing about realities because "Language" has beed dead.
syp,you are humerous....
bRink
I really appreciate your advice!
dont try to rush yourself, if you are interested, try to find the answers on your own, through research, doing, making, thinking, and reflecting, and, if you really get interested, you will do this for a long long long time,, i dont think anyone here will give you an answer that will satisfy you,,
and, yeah, language is definately not going to give you an answer, atleast not on its own
in my first ever lecture about architecture in my first year at school, during orientation week, the professor (who later on became my thesis advisor, freaky, i know) told us, what we are going to do for the rest of our lives is:
think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-think-do-
while this is very simplistic, its probably true
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