the time is always now // phase 3C[a1]

Brief for this week below. Remember the workshop with Anni Vestergaard Thursday and Friday.

picts from friday

Thank you for inspiring discussions on Friday. Dropbox link to some pictures from the day HERE. Please remember to have a team / time to build a simple shelve system /rack of wooden 4 x 4 on the back wall of  4. floor for keeping the models. Should be done before thursday's workshop with Anni V. Brief for work from Monday on  coming up on next blog post before tomorrow.Also: Please consult the study tour commitee members (aki, stefie, kristen) for more update on sharing some writing for the trip booklet.

Re: Architecture of Necessity

For tomorrow Friday 19.03 set aside a few hours from 10:00 for short "inspiration slideshow" by TW with longer Q/A regarding development of projects, workshops, lectures etc.  prior to mid-term and the study trip.

In the mean time, and certainly also after, you might get acquainted with the manifesto of Architecture of Necessity, that we might have as guide-line(s)… (curtesy virserumskonsthall) 

Architecture of Necessity is:

Responsible

Architecture of Necessity requires insight and professional knowledge. It reflects human needs, both immediate and distant. It considers all the dimensions and consequences of architecture, even those that are not always apparent. The future of architecture lie in its constraints.

Diligent

Architecture of Necessity is properly planned, considerately executed and meticulously evaluated. The planning pays attention to experience, it answers human needs, it embeds the building into its environment and the function into the building. Attention to detail and choice of material provides a proximity for users and allows for the inclusion of those involved. The evaluation generates knowledge of the continued life of the building and of future projects. Reflection ensures a long-term economy.

Sustainable

Architecture of Necessity avoids short-term solutions. Its premise is recycling, it strives to reduce transport and takes advantage of renewable resources. The Architecture of Necessity is long term and renewable. Materials are best recycled where they already exist in a building. Architecture must economise with resources and energy and show consideration for people.

Just

Architecture of Necessity counteracts social and global divisions. It prevents segregation and slums by stimulating participation and development in suburbs and favelas. It defends architecture as the right of everybody and the architectural experience as a free utility. Society shall provide the space for both the everyday and the extraordinary experiences of human life for everybody.

Open

Architecture of Necessity invites change and dialogue. It is open to rich and complex cultural traditions and narratives and is the physical embodiment of the democratic society. A building or a city is not something to be completed, it is something to be developed. The architecture that is open to change and participation wil be loved and it will have a long life.

charrette results & model pics // work brief

Thanks for sending the links. Below most of your works with the charette and the model photos should be duly linked to ISSUU. (it got quite confusing with all the links on the mail :-)

CHARRETTE  results from: (click on link to open)

florian, kirsten , ling, matyas, pål henrik, yonghyun aki, chris, david, lena, luise,  mira, nele, preben,    sondre, stefanie, thomas. //  xxx = not yet as 17.02

Model PHOTOGRAPH booklet:

florian, kirsten , ling, matyas, pål henrik, yonghyun aki, chris, david, lena, luise,  mira, nele, preben,    sondre, stefanie, thomas. 

WORK TO DO

> Tomorrow: 

A/ clear studio, put up latest work(s) as A4 from charrete and models; B/ clear up 4.floor, establish bookshelves, try having some models on walls / start creating an architectural wunderkammer and C/ take a trip to IKEA to purchse each a black and a white frame (50 x 70 cm FISBO frame 69 nok/ piece) D/ print charrtte and photo booklet. TW present on Friday for short inspirational lectures / intro of next week work til workshop with Anni.

on superstudio and jesper rasmussen

During the reviews the work of italian architect group  Superstudio from the late 60's /early 70's was discussed and while studying the models, the danish artist Jesper Rasmussen's photo works with urban environments whitout windows were mentioned... below are links to Superstudio here and here  and Rasmussens work(s) [scroll sideways off locations  new /old to see all ] here. Enjoy.

BTW bookmark the blog to your smartphone ! You will thus be able to share your works on the spot to friends, family and others. ( ISSUU works from charette should be up by tomorrow)

work next week // post review

Thank you all for intensive, attentive and inspiring review(s) on Friday. It was a delight to experience the many 1:50 scale models, especially the ones that had architectural presence and showed dedicated skills in manufacturing. View pictures from the review and the day before on dropbox link HERE.

Mentionable: some had extended / re-worked their maps of Dale in good and thought-provoking ways, enabling newer readings, opening the understanding(s) of urban form(s) to more oblique introspections. Some had worked with capturing the essence of the model(s) via photographs and gifs that gave new insights.

REFERENCES :
During the reviews, various references where mentioned. Regarding the understanding of simplified (pure) geometric forms, Bruno Munari's seminal work on square, triangle and circle is always a fine inspiration. Downloadable for study purposes as follows (click on links): Square, Triangle, Circle. Regarding other complexities and contradictions in architecture (sic), consult/download Robert Venturi's book here. (Read pages118-120 regarding simplified complexity in a simple building)

WORK
for all on Monday/Tuesday:

A) Upload all your latest booklets on ISSUU, send links to HS and TW for linkage on blog.
B) For the participants who did not make 1:50 models of Dale buildings (or near Dale), please do so, asap.; For those of you who would like to re-do some of their models with more care, you are most welcome. (maximum to Tuesday evening). All others: capture the essence of your models in various photographs and/or  animated gifs, makes separate booklet with photos, including mappings, for understanding the model's contexts in Dale.

More specific feed-back for each participant regarding project/process development will be given after Tuesday, with also with more specifics regarding analogue/digital proceedings.


Most of your project's themes are, btw, actually, already quite "visible"…  please reflect on that (even if it might seem blurry, yet…) you might want to collect references (build, undbuild, other)… (you thought you where just doing exercises, until now :-) ?)

on memory and other places

“I never saw this strange dwelling again. Indeed, as I see it now, the way it appeared to my child’s eye, it is not a building, but it is quite dissolved and distributed inside me: here one room, there another, and here a bit of corridor which,however, does not connect to the two rooms, but is conserved in me in fragmentary from. Thus the whole thing is scattered about inside me, the rooms, the stairs that descended with such ceremonious slowness, others narrow cages that mounted in a spiral movement, in the darkness of which we advanced like the blood in our veins.”
Rainer Maria Rilke - Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge

“I was there" Architectural speculations on a farmhouse in Sognefjorden was the title from Hanne Kristine Kroken Finseth's diploma project at BAS in 2013. You can view some of it here and here  or at the BAS website here.

on taking out instead of filling in

Most clients tend to ask for extra spaces when re-building. Unfortunately that often ends up with clutters of new "rooms" for various purposes. Few have the talent and the courage to take out "rooms" from a house. Here are two excellent examples of the simple grandeur of MA infill - that we, hopefully, will have on our programme for the cource's study tour.
Both houses retain, for different reasons, the original shape of the former building, while transforming it to something radically new, while at the same time remaining compationate for their contexts. For more info on the at Studio  Bardill and the Yellow House by Valerio Olgiati click on the links to know more about how "nothing"  often is more.

images from Dale trip #1

Here are links to some of the image folders received so far. Please send in the rest asap, best on a drpbox folder with individual link from your personal account. (Google sharing accounts and dropbox shared accounts do not maintain their links, so those would be lost in the blog). Received Pics from: Preben, Aki, Matyas, Kirsten, Yonghyun ,

on-line DALE Subjective Atlases

Thank you for uploading your DALE space and context / subjective atlases.

Most (but not all) have been reworked since the reviews. Click on the following names to acsess the material for inspiration and common information on work in progress. Florian, Aki, Søndre, David, David#2, Nele, Preben, Kirsten, Luise, Ling, Yonghyung  ,Chris, Matyas, Lena, Mira ; Missing as of 09.02: Thomas, Paul,Mickey,Stefanie,;

charrette ! monday tuesday wednesday :-)

As promissed below is the brief for the short charrette. The model material might be somewhat rough, yet precise and in scale. The other architectural material, i.e drawings and texts follow same procedures as the two previous exercises, but should be more "tight" i.e more text and drawings on all pages. Use model photographs in various ways to explore spatial configurations.  Read brief carefully. ENJOY . 

Attached is a quick scann as running .pdf of the brochure "Dale Kulturvandringer". Click here to download.
NB: As announced earlier, we do accept more loose deadlines and delays for the participants with kids / babies. :-)

anni's // books, body and spaces

We have just received the news that Anni Vestergaard will be joining the course with a two days 1:1 workshop at the end of February. You can ckeck her recent exhibition (with Mette Winckelmanns) in a review- in danish - clicking here, or check out Anni's homepage showcasing her work(s).

on point(s), comma(s), paranthesis, et.al

Last week, at the informal reviews we mentioned swedish concretist poetry from the sixties.Click HERE for a short piece of abstract (or is it concrete ?) geography. Or take a walk on the wild side of concrete prose by cliking here ( best for those that undertstand swedish, but great also for practising your general onomatopoetica)

after Dale visit, before charette

Thank you for a very inspiring trip to Dale this week. As you all probably have taken many pictures, it would be great to have these linked here on this post. Please follow the instrctions in the TO DO list, at bottom of blogpost. Late Sunday evening the task for the charette will be uploaded on the next blogpost. Expect intense work monday - thursday. Pictures from last week's work in studio prior to presentations with kalle and Hedvig on a link HERE.

Reminder for informal reviews Friday

On MA & space-time and more

Thank you for the inspiring and interactive discussions on  work in progress on Friday from those present. Pics from the day HERE (We missed the rest, and their work(s) on studio wall / tables). It was possible to discern some quite distinct topics, i.e liminalliminalityity / islands , "fargo" / forensic science, levels / POV, periphery / center…that one might want to explore further… We had many interesting side-way, oblique approaches to the topic of remote and habitation during the discussions … (Moomins, Las Vegas, Holl, emptiness, forensic science, scales, movements and much more)

Above are some illustrations to some topics discussed: The japanese (eastern) concept of MA - space time… Here is alink to the exhibition catalogue from Isozaki's exhibition in NY. Also, a short text from Calvino (OuLiPo) on how to observe, and an illustration from Steven Holl's Milano project…

On the next post tomorrow expect some more precise details as to the work to be produced for the review on Friday… Models from the general topography at Dale (pocket size or a bit larger are still missing! )

Otherwise: Remember the course expects continuous participation !  See the last two sentences in the document "Learning Outcome"

On maps and metaphors

Description(s) of the world(s) might always also bring about a map, and or some sort of metaphor, to relate the comprehention to something otherwise known. It is also a question of scale, and the comprehention(s) of scale(s)... In the BAS library you could find the following books: "City Metaphors" by O.M. Ungers and "The Manhattan Transcripts" by Bernard Tschumi. (you should try to get them up to the studio...) if not, here is alink to the introductory text from Ungers and a complete scann of the "transcripts" here.Download for further studies...

BTW: the blog also functions well on a smartphone... bookmark it on your's to follow... 'is handy should you want to show your ISSUU booklets i.e ...

On observing closely

"The Perfect Human" is a (now cult)short film by danish film director Jørgen Leth from 1967. It is a sublime demonstration of what simple observation can be, and how difficult it is to watch something apparently without "meaning" or "message"… It constitutes an intricate piece of condensed body-space morphology… Enjoy the aesthetic (is it just that ?) "distraction".

Phase 02 // DALE space(s) & reference collection

Fields of Indeterminacy: Toshi Ichiyanagi’s Fluxus Scores

OK. then.  again. now. to. phase.  two. 

Please read the brief below carefully and proceed accordingly. Remember to manufacture models of Dale spaces - i.e small precise, in scale, yet subjective models, (pocket models, and larger ones). But forst and foremost READ the brief below.. Also attached is the learning outcome for the semester and the course.... This is mostly a general reminder, if you are wondering what the course is about. (seems nitty-grytty and it is...) The workload is precisely dosaged, yet manageable: if you work each day with curiosity and playful, loving intererst, you will both learn new stuff (if you also read the texts from the reading list) and manufacture amazing personal projects. 

Here is the brief for phase 02 - click on image to enlarge then print or download.

Below is the course learning outcome description.

phase 01 // chilhood space(s) booklets finis

david harris : memory of collors cs ´16

OK. then. thanks: most delivered (some) revisions of the chilhood space(s) booklets with supplements on time. Remember to carefully read any brief comming during this semester. It helps knowing what to revise, and have conversations on work progress. Most (many)  are missing the models and photos of models.

Below are  links to the finished booklets on ISSUU. David, Nele, Yonghyan, Florian, Luise, Matyas, Aki,Mickey, Pål Henrik, Sondre, Ling, Stefanie , Nele, Preben, Kirsten, Lena, Mira,   .... (rest still missing) Click on name to assess the booklet.

Work on monday // chilhood space(s)

Thank you for the work on your childhood space(s). As agreed on Friday at the reviews, we suggested that you could supplement the work(s) with more precise textual description(s) of the spaces involved. Below is the brief for work on Monday.

On Monday, the brief for work(s) until the reviews at the end of January will be posted. Remember also (some) of the "rules" from John Cage: make work enjoyable.

phase 01 // childhood space(s) reviews

Thank you for work during phase 01 and the presentations of your childhood space(s) on Friday. Inspiring and at times fine, thought provoking material to start discussions about the many, open and very varied, conditions for habitation(s) and ways to inhabit space(s).

Some pics from work during the week and the review, on the link here. 

More precise instructions on the nature of the supplementing work to be done on Monday (for all) on the childhood space(s) on the next blog post.

Activities thursday and friday

diagramatic plan , chilhood space, Xiaoyu Xu, 2014 BAS

Activities for thursday and friday are as follows :

studio cleaned, with new wall and cover for waste bins (hopefully);

All (or most) material produced hung up on studio walls - as thight as possible, does not need individual sections - mix stuff for new views. (remember A4 portrait, A3 landscape- always). use bluetack/elefant snot from tiger or similar. no tape.

models produced on display on tables or on one long table on 4th. floor. 

Thursday (start ca. 10:00) will be about staudio space, common topics for course/other activities/schedule ajustments(!), and individual tutorials. Friday reviews of chilhood spaces booklet (one hard copy for each, printed and bound/glued with the gray cover/back, and a running .pdf for each (two pages) collected on a common memory stick/laptop. and at end of day intro to next phase.

Something "old" and something "new"

In this post, two quite crutial short books or pamplets are introduced: Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook and Juhani Pallasmaa's The Eyes of the Skin. Both works are foundation knowledge in architectural studies, so if you have not yet been aquainted to them yet, this semester gives a possibility for re-viewing.

The Pedagogical Sketchbook by Paul Klee is an intuitive art investigation of dynamic principles in visual arts from his teaching at the Bauhaus Shool in the 1920's. Klee takes his students on an ‘adventure in seeing’ guiding them step-by-step through a challenging conceptual framework. Objects are rendered in a complex relation to physical and intellectual space concepts. It is an exercise in modern art thinking. In her introduction to the book, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy divides the book into 4 different parts corresponding to the 4 conceptual frameworks. Each framework is illustrated by intricate drawings (mixture of what looks like creative arithmetic or geometry sketches, scribbles and mental notes).

The Eyes of the Skin is the "gentle manifesto" that grew out of the Finnish architect, teacher, philosopher, and designer Juhani Pallasmaa's concern about the "dominance of vision and the suppression of other senses in the way architecture was taught, conceived and critiqued." Originally published in 1996, this influential pocket-sized book ( 12 x 21 cm, Pallasmaa's essay is only 60 pages). Pallasmaa's call for a non-ocular-centric architecture that responds to existential human questions—rather than one weighted down by discourse for its own sake—is timeless.

Both books are available at the BAS library. Otherwise below are two links to .pdf downloads, reachable here (Klee) and here (Pallasmaa)