012107_Arch400 minutes

modified minutes with more detail added...sorry, the changes did not appear in a different colour on the blog...T


• Studio Foci - 1st – 5th year
• Micro-miniature
• Photography – lens vs. pinhole (also: the camera obscura and/or Lumiere Ghosting with David Gillette…or the work of Etienne Marais)
• Labyrinth – mythology, buildings, cities
• Interview with the Museum of Jurassic Technology
• Sustainability, Transportation or Engineering
• Hearst Lecture Series
- Specific lecturers & their influence, impression, and impact
- Activating Architectural Discourse
- Manuel DeLanda – thermodynamics, chaos theory, form derivation, organization (micro to macro)
- Community Development – Henry Sanoff, Michael Pyatok, Rob Quigley, Peter Calthorpe, etc
• 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-polinating 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
• Competitions
• Design Village
• Field Trips vs. cultural claustrophobia
- Biennale to Baths (Venice to Vals) Tour
- Japan
- New York
- Swiss Tour
- Seattle Tour
- Boston Tour
- Barcelona Tour
- 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 – competition
• 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:
o Jenny Hizer research
o Karl Johnson questionnaire
o Megan Dorrian research, etc…
• Alumni – What’s the Model?
- Corporate vs. Craftsmen otherwise known as Gensler vs. Zumthor

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off to a great start (as anticipated)

011107_arch400 minutes

011207--I took the changes that Tom made to the original set of minutes and have put them here in order to avoid the repetition of information. Note: all changes are in orange.

Here are Mindy's take on the topics...have to catch a bus to my next meeting, but will add my comments soon...everyone else, feel free to add to/modify these comments in a different font or colour or in caps, etc...

• 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 questionnaire
• Megan Dorrian research, etc…
  
• Alumni – What’s the Model?
• Corporate vs. Craftsmen otherwise known as Gensler vs. Zumthor
• Inter-collegiate discourse

grazie

thanks to mod + novomundus (aka sig + justin) for setting up the "Advanced Problems for Special Undergraduates" blog so quickly...next post will be Mindy's and my copy of the minutes from meeting no. one...

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