D4 P1 Graft Reflection

Just write whatever comes to mind concerning the project. You know the curriculum, my goals and how I went about it. You can leave a comment or construct a post with examples (images, etc). Thanks.

Musician and or Architect

I was reading a post on Archinect.com (http://archinect.com/blog/article/21453796/musician-and-or-architect) 

and came about an architect/musician who uses the process of composing music to influence architecture, Iannis Xenakis. Check out some of his diagrams :)

Grids Painting?

So like I said yesterday I am half confused, but my interpretation of this exercise if I were doing it myself would be to use the washes as the spatial finder based on the semi-controlled interactions between the pigment, diving into the intensities or non intensities to further explore those spaces. The grids drawing could help begin to think about the structure within the vertical oriented wash. Using Photoshop filters, layers, cropping, etc. you can further explore the spaces and structure simultaneously (zooming in to a particular section and zooming out to view the whole painting) so then the structure of the music can help shape the spaces, and the spaces within the structure influence the connections/scale of the grids themselves.

Am I lost? I just want to make sure I don't push the students in an off direction. 

This YouTube link you might have seen before its about some artworks of Thom Mayne dealing with an organized non-rectilinear structure, for some reason this came to mind yesterday as you were drawing with charcoal yesterday, not sure if this is also a way to think about the grids painting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHyFAeNzpK0

- Charles

D4 2013 TA Invitation to Blog

Hi D4 2013 TA Crew.
It is always my intention to get the hands-on in-the-studio feedback concerning what I intend to teach and what is actually learned. So I have (finally) invited you to the meta-tectonic blog. There is a small amount of history here but not much.
I would suggest the following format for posts;
Posts should be based on a specific observation.
Posts should fit this observation into one or more of the established learning goals. (Maybe these are good labels?)
Posts should offer insight or reflection on the assignment and/or curriculum as a whole.
Ideally posts should have examples of what is observed; either a picture taken at the scene (cell phone pic), or a students work with your mark ups (quick redlines in Ps or a cellphone pic editor).
Posts can be short and comments can add depth.
Finally, posts should be fun.

Also, you may use links to the comments you make of the studio blog.

Desert Beginings!

I just want to say that these desert omniscient drawings are coming out looking very very nice! Even better then what I was imagining.. which is always most desirable!

Potential D4 Seminars?

In general, concerning the final products of garage, I noticed certain deficiencies in fundamentals.

Physical Model:

1. Most models seemed very abstract and planar, and this construction technique does not explore certain structural realities nor do they explore smaller details relative to construction, body, and program.

Drawing:

2. The images used in the construction of the Photoshop collage were not worked enough in the program or taken in a crisp enough way to use as raw material.

I propose we could host both a Photography and Model Tectonics seminar

Maybe we bring in materials and try building something quick and have them also make some sketch models. I also think bringing in a camera and showing them how to take crisp images and navigate Photoshop's camera raw options would be very helpful and potentially make them more competitive with their peers

1st slightly negative comment

Ok professor so I've been thinking of something... more harsh to bring to the blog about the class. There are some things that maybe need to be addressed about the garage results. The models turned out good I think but they did not have a process oriented feel to them.. in most cases, not all. I'm not thinking in terms of craft but more in terms of ideas pulling through a period of time in which they can be adapted and altered. That is one problem that I felt towards the end of the process.. just trying to be a little negative.. it's a process though!