As Tschumi explores, the focus on differentiating architectural styles has created a set of new […]
Unitary Urbanism
In the Debord readings, I found unitary urbanism to be the most interesting part of […]
Week 9: Tschumi
When discussing postmodernism, Venturi introduced the “Both-And” approach to us along with the opposite –”Either-Or.” […]
Space
As I read through the first few chapters of Tschumi’s “Architecture and Disjunction” I couldn’t […]
Week 9
The underlying theme in “Spaces and Events” reminds me of the quote famously written by […]
Week 9: Tschumi’s Sequences
The idea that “any architectural sequence implies at least three relations” (Tschumi, 153), of which […]
Week 9
From looking at Tschumi’s Manhattan Projects, even just skimming the images, I began to draw […]
Week 9
Situationism as described by Guy Debord in the first text analyzes the relationship between “two […]
Week 9
This week the articles mainly talk about situationism. Situationism is a strategy which describes […]
Week 9: Tschumi
Last week we read “The Death of the Author” by Roland Barthes which does not […]
Statements Statements Statements
The 2004 movie, Troy, starts off with the line by Sean Bean as Odysseus: Men […]
Situationism
Situationism is defined as the movement that describes the situation around us. Situationism in […]
Post-Modernism
When reading Stern’s essay, “Gray Architecture as Post-Modernism, or, Up and Down from Orthodoxy,” I […]
Week 8: Venturi’s Criticism
Reading Robert Venturi’s “Complexity and Contradiction,” it’s very clear to see how he falls in […]
The Gray
The Robert Stern reading’s help to clarify the difference in “the Whites” and “the Grays” […]
Week 8: Didascalo’s Argument
The voice of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Didascalo, in argument with “strawman Protopiro, a rigorist in […]
Week 8: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Venturi’s goal in his book “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture” is not to provide polemic […]
10/26 The Importance of the Author
In English class, we have learned that it is incorrect to introduce quotes by saying, […]
Week 8
Both of this week’s readings and last week’s reading discussed the relation of language and […]
What’s wrong with living in huts?
Often times we hear that everything that could be done has already been done and […]
Week 8
A lot of extraordinary architects made different architecture plans, city plans and devoted themselves to […]
Week 8: Gray
“The Death of the Author” by Roland Barthes does not explicitly have anything to do […]
The clash between high modernism and post modernism
Throughout the 20th century, architects have contributed to multitude of movements that narrated the […]
Genius Loci and the Analogous City
I think it is worth comparing the idea of Norberg-Schultz’s Genius Loci with Rossi’s analogous […]
Dwelling
I didn’t really understand exactly what Heidegger was getting at in the readings but I […]
Week 7: Dwelling & Identity
Norberg-Schultz’s “Genius Loci” was the reading which was most helpful and thought provoking for me […]
Phenomenology
In order to be an architect, you must consider the realities of all other disciplines. […]
Week 7
Heidegger’s discusses how people/dwellers interact with their respective building. He analyzes how “a dweling is […]
Post 7: Phenomenology
The overall concept of analyzing architecture by means of phenomenology is simply another form of […]