Themes

Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees.
Paul Valery

As artists, the one true inquiry of art as a pure subject is an inquiry of our potential to know the world around us and our actively being in it, with a particular emphasis on the aesthetic. This world is not just somehow given to us whole. We perceive, we shape the world, and as artists we discover and give value to our human potential to "see" the infinite richness (beauty?) in everything, creating an extended aesthetic reality.
Robert Irwin

The entire secret of designing is the conscious insertion of a building into the community of what exists.
Heinz Wetzel

Monday, August 27, 2007

Keeping the momentum

All,
I enjoyed the last week with you immensely! You teased out some remarkable approches both in terms of inquiry and translation into aesthetic architectural form.

The final review was a good opportunity for you to check for yourself, where each of you stands in relation to the rest of the class. Those who feel that they did not get so far in this week got a road map sketched out to catch up, but even those who have defined their approach pretty well, still need to work a lot to complete the design task.

To keep the momentum going, I want to remind you to follow the blogging requirements within the affinity groups in terms of commenting and also posting your progress twice a week.

The new tasks will be posted to the right (see W4). As discussed, we can also touch base on the phone, if the need comes up.

Take care,
Enno

1 comment:

Tim Riffle said...

Did you mean the Thursday the 30th of August?