arch400_topics

For future reference, there is now a link on the reference bar (to the right) that will contain a continuously updated list of the topics (i.e. THIS post). To prevent repetition of information, all updates to the list can be made here by using the edit tool (the pencil icon below the post). This way, when new minutes are posted for each meeting, the continuously expanding topic list will not take up excess space on the main blog page.

• Studio Focuses:
• Transportation
• Engineering
• Sustainability
  
• Micro-miniature
• Photography – lens vs. pinhole (also: the camera obscura and/or Lumiere Ghosting with David Gillette, and the work of Etienne [Jules] Marey)
  
• Labyrinth – mythology, buildings, cities
• Interview with the Museum of Jurassic Technology
• Sustainability, Transportation or Engineering
  
• Manuel DeLanda
• Thermodynamics
• Chaos Theory
• Form derivation
• Organization (micro to macro)
• Hearst Lecture Series
• Specific lecturers & their influence, impression, and impact
• Activating architectural discourse
  
• Interviews
• Faculty
• writings, artwork, professional careers, built works, academic papers given, furniture designed
  
• Fashion & Architecture
• LA exhibit & catalogue
  
• Charles Jencks
• Term/ name dropping
• Iconic architecture, architects
• Folding in fashion & architecture
• Critical discussion on the Holl addition at Pratt
  
• Aggregate forms, systems of absorption
• “Zone” publications (as precedent)
• Essays on the city
• Case studies
• Studio Verticality – how years inform each other
• Forging connections and cross-pollinating topics…for example: paper on Lume Materiale by Marco Frascari combines the WAAC, and a specific field trip to Venice, Italy with an interest in Luminous Materiality
  
• Community Development – Henry Sanoff, Pyatok, Rob Quigley, Peter Calthorpe, etc.
• Competitions
• Design Village
• Field Trips vs. cultural claustrophobia
• Biennale to Baths (Venice to Vals) Tour
  
• Swiss Italy Tour
• Barcelona Tour
• Boston Tour
• Seattle Tour
  
• Japan
• New York
• LA
• SF
• Learn by Doing
• Study Abroad – what students are doing “A Day in the Life”
• Space Invasions
• Post Graduate Career -- article by Sam Bermudez regarding the Gensler office in Costa Rica, Leon Rost at Shigeru Ban, Yoshi at Asymptote or Endo or Toyo Ito, Brian Price at SHoP, Jonathan Lott at OMA, Domenic Leong at Tschumi, etc.
• Vellum jurors (Eric Pfeiffer, Joey Shimoda, Len Wujcik, Chris Deam, Joanna Grawunder, Craig Steely, Jill Salisbury, Anne Fougeron, etc..)
• Vellum essay written by Henri de Hahn...Guillermo Yanguez
• Fifth Year Thesis excerpts:
• Jenny Hizer research
• Karl Johnson research
• Megan Dorrian research, etc...
  
• Alumni – What’s the Model?
• Corporate vs. Craftsmen otherwise known as Gensler vs. Zumthor
• Inter-collegiate discourse