Architecture
Building design, aesthetics, and engineering.
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Architecture
HarvardX GSD1xThe Architectural Imagination
Lecture 1.1 Aesthetic Perception
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K. MICHAEL HAYS: I'm in Gund Hall, which is the home of the Graduate School of Design. And I'm in the studio space, which is where the most intense activity takes place of design, of analysis and research, of imagination. We'll speak about the
architectural
EVERYTHING IS ARCHITECTURE Alles ist Architektur is the title of a manifesto published in magazine Bau by Hans Hollein in 1968. According to Hollein, the traditional definition of architecture is no longer relevant. ‘Our efforts are focused on the en -vironment as a whole and all media that deter mine it. Television as well as the artificial... See more
Not specified in the provided text. • Radical Austria: Everything is Architecture
Italian design studio @super.sedia, founded by Markus Töll, creates furniture where every detail is shaped individually, guided by a constant dialogue between an idea and its immediate realisation. Growing up in his father’s metal workshop in Bressanone, Northern Italy, Töll was exposed to tools and materials from a young age, an experience that... See more
instagram.comThe flat layout of the building made for constant chance encounters in the hallways. Vertical buildings create rigid boundaries, since floors and stairs are harder barriers, so the horizontal footprint caused people to run into dozens of others throughout a typical day. From the air, it looked like an oblique letter E (with a little extra E), and... See more
Coleman McCormick • MIT's Building 20: a Masterpiece of Utility
Vernacular design outside of architecture
I've been thinking about how this idea applies to design in fields outside of architecture. Architecture is unique in its geographic, climatic, and cultural contexts, since the "localism" aspect is particularly relevant. But there are probably some parallels that could be drawn to modern software design,... See more
I've been thinking about how this idea applies to design in fields outside of architecture. Architecture is unique in its geographic, climatic, and cultural contexts, since the "localism" aspect is particularly relevant. But there are probably some parallels that could be drawn to modern software design,... See more
Coleman McCormick • Designing from Experience, Not Expertise
