SCHEDULED EVENTS IN FEB FOR EVEN SEMESTER
Design/Basic Design Workshop -- 11th February to 16th February, 2013.
First year, Second semester – 2012-13 Faculty –Punita Mehta
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Workshop schedule: Date
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Morning
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Afternoon
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11th Feb Monday
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Ex.1 – Representing abstract concepts
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Representing abstract concepts (contd)
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12th Feb Tuesday
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Representing abstract concepts (contd)
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Ex. 2 - Representing moving images (movie poster)
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13th Feb Wednesday
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Representing moving images (movie poster) contd.
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Representing moving images (movie poster) contd.
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14th Feb Thursday
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Ex. 3 – Understanding Light
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Understanding Light (contd)
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15th Feb Friday
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Ex. 4- Understanding Form and Structure
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Understanding Form and Structure (contd)
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16th Feb Saturday
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Summing up and exhibition
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Relax and reflect on what you have done!
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Materials to bring to the class:
Pottery clay (red) for making models. (for ex.4)
Several sheets of cartridge paper/ivory paper, A1 size. (for ex.2)
Water / poster, pastel, pencil colours/ Black water proof ink and brushes. ( (for ex.2)
1m of wire (1mm dia) and wire mesh (1or 2mm square grid). (for ex.1)
Thermocol sheet 12mm thick. (for ex.1)
Buff board/model making cardboard white coloured. (for ex.3)
Note: It would be a good idea to get all this material and keep it in class at all times to be used as when needed. You may buy the wire and wire mesh in bulk for the class at about 2 sq. ft. per person.
The above schedule is based on the assumption that the students will be working the whole day beginning 9 am and extending as late as 7pm. With fewer hours we may be able to do three exercises.
INTENSIVE SEMINAR – IDEAS IN ARCHITECTURE
FACULTY – PROF. JAIMINI MEHTA
Day 1 Feb 11, 2013 (Monday)
Session 1 Introduction to course, The Idea of Architecture
General explanations, methods and structure of course
What is the nature of activity we call architecture?
“Vita Activa” and architecture
Building as embodiment of architecture
Examples
Session 2 Building Vs. Architecture
Are all buildings “Architecture”?
When do buildings become architecture?
Pre-rational notion of architecture as “Model of Nature”.
Architecture as representation of reality.
Session 3 Early theoretical formulations
From Artisan to Architect
Vitruvious and Leon Batista Alberti
Comparison of above with Vastu-Shashtra.
18th. and 19 cent. Theories
Qualities that characterize Architecture.
Order, A Place of well-being, A sense of place,
Day 2
Session 4 Vocabulary of Architecture
Wall, The Primordial element
Column.
Ground plane
Session 5 Grammar of architecture
Layering, Rhythm/repetition.
Hierarchy, Axial, Linear, Branching
Clustered, Centralized, Radial
Nestled, Random, Symmetrical. Etc.
Session 6 Order I
Order as a reflection of Man’s relation with Nature.
Early Man and Nature’s domination
Greek abstraction and “Strange making”.
Eastern civilizations’ accommodation with Nature.
Day 3
Session 7 Order II
Is Order a priory?
Design as exploration and search for Order.
Beethoven’s fifth symphony
Kahn’s Center for Performing Arts.
Session 8 Order III
Classical Order Vs open order
Paul Klee
Examples from music (Rolling Stones and Omkarnath)
Berlin University
Session 9 Space I
Perceptive space
Mythical space
Metric space
Day 4
Session 10 Haptic Space of Fatehpur Sikri
Sikri as an example of pre-Euclidian space.
Current representation of Sikri
Feet on the ground and eyes to the face
Alternate representation of Sikri
Session 11 Louis Kahn – Volume Zero
Universal and eternal
Shape and Form
“Order is”
Session 12 Architecture as Representation of Reality and
Representation of Architecture.
§ The Mimetic theory of Art.
§ Musical notations as representation
§ Drawings as representation in architecture.
§ Orthogonal drawings, Analytical drawings and Perspectives.
Day 5
Session 13 Analysis
§ Alberti, St. Andrea, Mantua
Session 14 Analysis
§ Mies, German Pavilion
Session 15 Concluding remarks.
§ Discussion with students /faculty