August 2010
3 posts
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I’m only keeping this russel-a-r thing active because it’s the main account and closing it would only delete all the other blogs related to it…. :/
June 2009
9 posts
Exercise Four: Exhibition Space
For this exercise, all of the students in the class were divided up into fifteen separate groups with each containing four to five members. There are fifteen groups because there were only fifteen extraordinary models from the previous exercise that the instructors liked a great deal. For our group, Warren was the group leader because he built the model from the previous exercise that the...
Exercise Three:Exhibition Space
Now that I am very familiar with Mathias Klotz and his work, I must now begin Exercise three. For this exercise, I was tasked with designing an exhibit space for Mathias Klotz that will feature ten of works of Klotz. In addition, a video of an interview with Klotz will also be shown. The model has to be at least eight feet in height, and it must fit in a fifteen by twenty feet plot of...
Exercise Two: Mapping Chimaeras
Exercise Two deals with the conceptual nature of a project and the methodologies of the chosen architect. The term chimaera is derived from a mythical beast of the same name that has the heads of a lioness and a goat and a snake’s head as a tail. Conceptually, a chimaera is a hybrid of ideas. To produce a chimaera, one must be very familiar with the architect.
To further understand Klotz, I...
Exercise One: Case Studies
The purpose of this exercise is to provide us aspiring architects an analytical perspective of the world of architecture. For this exercise, the focus is on contemporary architects that loosely define “modern” architecture, especially during the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Through this exercise, we were able to try the waters of architectural researching. Accumulated information were expressed...
