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, September 17, 2007

Task Week 7

This week work on the items that we identified individually over the phone last weekend. Here is a summary of the key comments

- Think about the deliverables for the final presentation as a competition entry: show the full capacity of your specific approach and find ways of representing it that are more engaging than abstracted plan, elevations and sections. Seductively composed images will carry you a long way towards getting people exited about your projects.
- Having said this, it needs to be clear that your design is not just an engaging conceptual fantasy, but that a credible translation into a building has been started.
- Be clear about your concept and how you translate it into architectural parameters. Annotate and render your drawings specific to your themes and include conceptual diagrams.
- show as much context as possible (ground floor plan, sections, 3D models & renderings) and be graphically clear about elements that are related.

Other items:
- Here is a link to the requirements for the final presentation that will be due on Sunday evening, September 30th. Sketch mock-up postings for yourself and identify what drawings you need to focus on.
- I'll send out a new sign up list for a last round of phone calls this weekend.
- I am looking forward to seeing your work completed! You have exiting ideas: present them as sharp and crisp as possible.

Lots of energy and luck,
Enno

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