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School of Architecture (Arkitekturskolan), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Built 2015. Stockholm - Sweden
Excerpt from winterstations.com/archive/peak/:
Emerging from the soft and organic beachscape are angular peaks that frame perspectives and form pathways. Consisting of repeating structures of select shapes and sizes, Peak is an interactive installation that visually contrasts the existing site and offers refuge from the cold winter environment. The design of the structure appears to shift and settle with the ground as the sand moves and collects within the alcoves and sloped surfaces from the wind. Peak welcomes contemplation and new beginnings, it offers opportunities for individuals to freely explore and admire the surrounding natural landscape and intends to give agency to the ever changing and unpredictable conditions of the site.
Excerpt from winterstations.com/archive/peak/:
Emerging from the soft and organic beachscape are angular peaks that frame perspectives and form pathways. Consisting of repeating structures of select shapes and sizes, Peak is an interactive installation that visually contrasts the existing site and offers refuge from the cold winter environment. The design of the structure appears to shift and settle with the ground as the sand moves and collects within the alcoves and sloped surfaces from the wind. Peak welcomes contemplation and new beginnings, it offers opportunities for individuals to freely explore and admire the surrounding natural landscape and intends to give agency to the ever changing and unpredictable conditions of the site.
...offer her a chair ~Yiddish proverb
Please join me in wishing Ferrara's Lady of the Chairs a wonderful birthday. Have a special day, Rita, and a super year ahead. And ignore anything about you being 97 - it is NOT true. No, I just realised I wished you a happy 97th birthday last year and so Happy 98th!! :)
Chair in Ferrara's School of Architecture
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The ceiling of the Daniels Building, school of architecture, landscape and design, university of Toronto. Canada, this time a wide angle.
The ceiling of the Daniels Building, school of architecture, landscape and design, university of Toronto. Canada, this time a wide angle.
37 years ago, I graduated from UIC school of Architecture. This was my final design project – a Law School for the University. The site was Harrison Street, west of Halsted and south of the Eisenhower Expressway, in Chicago.
The old Quebec seminary - the Procure wing
In the heart of the historic quarter of Quebec’s capital city, the buildings of the Old Québec Seminary were built between 1675 and 1868.
“Today this complex is called the Vieux Séminaire de Québec. It is modeled on French 17th-century convents and colleges. Its three buildings have features specific to French Regime construction: white plaster walls with S-shaped wall anchors, higher in certain spots to serve as a fire stop, and tin roofs with dormer windows. The buildings are arranged to form a typical inner court.
The Procure wing, shown here, with its signature sundial dating from 1773 is the oldest building. It was constructed sometime around 1680, then rebuilt three times due to fire. The only parts that remain from the original building are the vaulted cellars where Monseigneur Laval’s kitchen was located.
A LEADING INSTITUTION OF NEW FRANCE
The Séminaire de Québec was a society of Catholic priests founded in 1663 by François de Laval, who would become the first bishop of Québec. He established this society to train priests, evangelize the Aboriginals, and administer the parishes of the colony as a whole. Two years later he opened the Petit Séminaire, a boys’ school. The site of the first building is indicated by the rectangular marking on the pavement of the inner court.
A CLASSICAL EDUCATION
It was Louis XIV’s wish that the Petit Séminaire educate young boys and convert the Aboriginals. But for the first 100 years, it was a boarding school for future priests who studied at the Jesuit College—very close by, where City Hall is located today—before entering the Grand Séminaire.
After the conquest of New France was formalized in 1760, the British army requisitioned the Jesuit College for use as barracks. From that point on, the Séminaire had to expand its role and become an educational institution providing a classical curriculum, as the Jesuits were expelled from the colony. The students at the Petit Séminaire received an education based on the great European philosophers and writers, as well as French, Greek, and Latin. The purpose of this training in the classics was to mold them into full-fledged citizens, hale in mind and body, to make up the elite of Québec society.
THE TRADITION LIVES ON
The three wings of the Vieux Séminaire housed the Petit Séminaire de Québec until 1987. Its educational role lives on because Université Laval’s school of architecture is now occupied these heritage buildings.”
Source: www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/en/citoyens/patrimoine/quartiers/v...
Educational/Cultural Sites
Umeå University
Bild Museet (L)
School of Architecture (R)
Umeå, Sweden
Henning Larsen Architects
The Kasper Salin Prize is awarded to a building of high architectural quality by The Swedish Association of Architects. In 2015 the School of Architecture was the winner.
Architects: Tham & Videgård Arkitekter (Bolle Tham).
www.thamvidegard.se (website in English)
This is part of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the school. It's about injecting modern architecture ideas into the brick city, to inspire people especially the younger ones. I'm glad to be invited and selected to be part of this, exhibiting my LEGO creations at such a prominent place! @Times Square, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Harris Hall was designed by Ralph Carlin Flewelling, and constructed in 1940 in sort of a Moderne Romanesque style. It is part of the University of Southern California Historic District which is on the National Register of Historic Places #15000408.
Harris Hall was designed by Ralph Carlin Flewelling, and constructed in 1940 in sort of a Moderne Romanesque style. It is part of the University of Southern California Historic District which is on the National Register of Historic Places #15000408.
Nicola de la Haye Building, which along with the Peter de Wint Building are the home to the School of Art, Architecture & Design (AAD), and the home of the Media Archive for Central England. At the University of Lincoln, in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
In the 13th Century women were little more than the property of their husbands and barred from public life. Upon the death of her father Lord Richard de la Haye, she inherited the position of Constable of Lincoln Castle.
By May 1217 during the First Barons’ War much of England had been taken by the combined French and rebel English forces including the city of Lincoln. Only Lincoln Castle remained in support of the current monach King Henry III.
She keept power of Lincoln Castle during months of sieges, until William Marshal arrived with royalist forces to support the Castle. This is seen as a turning point in and meant that Prince Louis would not take the English throne.
Lincoln was awarded Gold – the highest standard possible - in the national Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) award in 2017, an independent assessment of teaching quality in UK higher education. The University states that this award reflects their “exciting teaching, great support for students and excellent employment outcomes”.
The School of Art, Architecture & Design say how “this can be demonstrated by an impressive number of our students annually winning international design awards, such as the RSA Student Design Awards and D&AD New Blood Awards. Our innovative ‘Student as Producer’ initiative offers students the opportunity to engage in real academic research and external professional projects.”
Information Sources:
project: Steinberg Hall
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Washington University in St. Louis
architect: Fumihiko Maki, FAIA
location: Forsyth Boulevard
Saint Louis, Missouri
Milstein Hall at the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning was designed by Rem Koolhaas and OMA and opened in 2011.
January 23, 2021 - "Knowlton Hall, dedicated in 2004, is a state-of-the-art facility for the School of Architecture. The School’s new home is based on the integration of elements: inside and out, students and faculty, old and new, school and university, art and technology. Each of the three disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and city and regional planning are mixed. The design reflects the school’s mission of excellence in education, innovation in design and planning, and the stewardship of quality environment.Knowlton Hall marks an important entrance to campus and forms a nucleus of professional schools along with the College of Engineering and Fisher College of Business. The 165,000-square-foot facility houses all classrooms, facilities, and offices for KSA’s three disciplines. Students learn in the six classrooms, four seminar spaces, 350-seat auditorium, outdoor classroom spaces, and 500 studio spaces available to them. The building also featuresgallery space for exhibitions, central review space for critiques of student work, a materials/fabrication lab, an experimental garden space, a 30,000-volume library, two computer laboratories, a digital image library, and a café.Knowlton Hall was designed by Mack Scogin Merril Elam Architects of Atlanta, with Wandel & Schnell of Columbus (now WSA Studio). Landscape Architecture was designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates, New York and Cambridge." Previous text from the following website: architizer.com/projects/knowlton-school-of-architecture/
Explored 11-30-09 #197
Wednesday, I had to go over to the University of New Mexico to pick up tickets for Rent.
Passing the School of Architecture, I just had to do this~
Amazingly, this photo is still on Explore, Dec. 5, @#241. WOOT
Lit to honor the architectural school's centennial.
For more info about this shot, please visit my blog.
Milstein Hall at the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning was designed by Rem Koolhaas and OMA and opened in 2011.
Watt Hall was designed by Edward Killingsworth, and constructed in 1974 in the Brutalist style. It is a noncontributing part of the University of Southern California Historic District which is on the National Register of Historic Places #15000408.
www.constantinroman.com/continentaldrift/english/preface....
POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION IN UNIVERSITIES in the Communist Countries:
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An example of a "Technical Drawing" Selection Test: the candidate was given five hours to produce an ink drawing, entirely in free hand, from a picture which he had to enlarge 1.5 times. The picture above is a genuine article (Romania 1959)
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There were only 60 places nation-wide for admission to the school of Architecture in Bucharest, in the "People's Republic (later the Socialist Republic) of Romania, a country of some 20 million inhabitants.
Each year the number of applicants were in the upper hundreds, an average of 10 to 15 candidates for each place.
After the Hungarian revolution of 1956 and during the peak of the Cold War an acerbate discrimination process was waged against children from a middle class background (the upper class by that time all but disappeared in the gulags and on the factory floors or rice paddies like during the Chinese Cultural revolution).
In practice the University entry selection had TWO phases or two rounds of admission exam:
The earlier round of admission exams was intended SOLELY for those candidates considered of coming from a "Healthy social class" that was the "politically correct" class (in today's parlance - call it workers and peasant's children, without the discomfort of competition of those children considered more gifted as they came from the "unhealthy social class" (origina sociala nesanatoasa) or the middle class of professionals (scientists, academics, teachers, office clerks, etc). furthermore, the "healthy class" progeny candidates who failed the first round of exams were allowed to compete again some two weeks later, in the second round, that is to be given a second chance to get in, yet this time having to compete against all other candidates...
The exams were structured in two groups: a first tier the "technical drawing test" such as this, where the applicant was given five hours to enlarge by 150% a picture showing a classical order(see above) and to draw it to scale in ink.
The second test involved also a classical drawing, this time from a plaster cast and it had to be drawn in pencil on a large piece of paper some 20 inches by 30 inches.
Those who would pass the first two tests were admitted to the second tier of tests which involved both written and oral maths and physics exams.
Furthermore to the above there was a quantum based on social and political positive discrimination in favour of the children from peasant and working class background and of those children whose parents were part of the communist party apparatus.
In addition, if for example you had a close family member in prison, or exiled in the West, or if your family had their house, land or business nationalised/expropriated, than you might just as well not have a hope in hell to become an architect in Romania!
NOTE that in secondary schools the national curriculum was not geared to the level required for admission to the School of Architecture in Bucharest, so parents had to pay "blood money" for private tuition, in order to improve their children chance at passing the disqualifying tests. Private tuition was nearly unaffordable in a communist society, where wages were at the survival level (except for the communist fat cats) and it was the privilege of a restricted circle of academics from the school of Architecture to profit financially from such a corrupt system by preparing the candidates for the exams!
The chances of any child whose parents were from the professional middle classes and were not communist party card-holders to be admitted at the school were absolutely NIL.
Finally the privileged few who were admitted to the school, selected on positive discrimination criteria, had later on, during their professional life, the opportunity, at best, to build chicken coops and silos for state farms, concrete tenements in the cities for the under dogs and especially the task of razing to the ground historical monuments, churches, city centres and villages in order to make room for the dictator's pharaoh ideas of planning architecture during the dark ages of the 1970s and 1980s.
NOTE: after the so-called 'revolution' which put down the Ceausescu couple in a coup-de-palais, the same crop of architects who were selected on the basis of positive discrimination to qualify professionally benefited from the spoils of opportunities to demolish historic buildings and replace them, wantonly with glass and steel structures in the best tradition of Cultural Terrorism
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I had a crush on this young lady back in my freshman year at Miami. My friend and I were all over her trying to get her attention. What a couple idiots we were.
Milstein Hall at the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning was designed by Rem Koolhaas and OMA and opened in 2011.
The Peter de Wint Building, an extension of the Nicola de la Haye Building, both of which are the home to the School of Art, Architecture & Design, and the home of the Media Archive for Central England. At the University of Lincoln, in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Peter de Wint who while living in Lincoln was a pronoment English landscape painter in the 16th and 17th Century. Some of his work are on display in the National Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and The Collection in Lincoln
The building replicates this ethos of passing on the torch, by being a tribute to the original building it is extending from.
The University was awarded Gold – the highest standard possible - in the national Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) award in 2017, an independent assessment of teaching quality in UK higher education. The University states that this award reflects their “exciting teaching, great support for students and excellent employment outcomes”.
The School of Art, Architecture & Design say how “this can be demonstrated by an impressive number of our students annually winning international design awards, such as the RSA Student Design Awards and D&AD New Blood Awards. Our innovative ‘Student as Producer’ initiative offers students the opportunity to engage in real academic research and external professional projects.”
Information Sources
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_De_Wint
adika.photography/blog/2020/5/26/peter-de-wint-building-u...
I believe it was Luis Feduchi, one of the most engagingly intelligent and down-to-earth people I met at the conference, who expressed mild skepticism of the attention paid to this fairly ordinary room enhanced chiefly by the hero worship attached to Gropius. I'm equally skeptical of hero worship (and of Gropius for that matter) but I went ahead snapping photos. To me the room is interesting not so much as the hallowed hall where the Master once sat, but as a period piece, an interesting window into the process by which the Bauhaus shifted from Expression to Function.
This was a complex process and more nuanced than is often acknowledged, a "two steps forward, one steps back" affair with some complete detours along the way, unsurprising given the diversity of the faculty and the general scene in Germany at the time. The Gropius room pinpoints, perhaps, the moment when De Stijl sensibility stepped in as the missing ingredient that separates all the pre-WWI developments in architecture from recognizable International Style.
The exact process by which this happened is a bit murky; Van Doesburg had lived in Weimar for a period, but he was not welcomed with open arms. Let me just quote from the longest footnote I've ever written:
Briefly: Van Doesburg had met and impressed Gropius and particularly Adolf Meyer in 1919 or 1920. Finding insufficient response to De Stijl among the Dutch middle class, he was either invited, or not at all invited, to come to Weimar, where Meyer arranged lodgings for him. He very quickly alienated most of the faculty with a heavy-handed top-down approach that resembled nothing so much as Gropius’s handling of the old Weimar art school faculty. In any case, he must have recalled Itten, and the prospect of yet another sectarian leader within the school does not seem to have thrilled the director. Van Doesburg began giving his own, free lectures on De Stijl from a local studio, winning either dozens of devoted followers, or a tiny handful of bored passersby. He left in early 1923, either because he was planning an exhibition in Paris or because he hated artistic freedom. In any case, the ideas he left behind galvanized the Bauhaus, or alternately made no impact whatsoever apart from a few minor works.
What we see in this room seems much more in line with the way van Doesburg might have imagined it. Though Kari argues that many of these details in fact come from English Arts & Crafts work, the more immediate source would seem to be van Doesburg. I mean, check out that lamp!
(Gropius's version of the story is largely cadged from his biography by Reginald Isaacs. The best Van Doesburg apologist is Bruno Zevi; I am indebted to Jackie Gargus for supplying an old draft of her yet-unpublished translation of Zevi's The Poetics of Neo-Plastic Architecture.)
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04/05/2018 : Torino, corso Duca degli Abruzzi: Politecnico di Torino (Giovanni Muzio, 1950-59)
Watt Hall was designed by Edward Killingsworth, and constructed in 1974 in the Brutalist style. It is a noncontributing part of the University of Southern California Historic District which is on the National Register of Historic Places #15000408.
The College of Fine Arts (originally the School of Applied Design) was designed by Henry Hornbostel and opened in 1912.
atwater tower
graduate thesis
university of wisconsin-milwaukee
chris t cornelius, associate professor - thesis chair
Robinson Hall, forming the northern side of the Sever quadrangle at 35 Quincy Street, was constructed to house Harvard University's Department of Architecture, founded in 1894. The building was completed in 1904 to the neoclassical design of architect Charles McKim. Eclectically derived classical bas-reliefs frame the entrance, while plaques celebrating the names of architects, sculptors and philosophers are placed below the upper windows. Robinson Hall was the home of the Graduate School of Design for years before the construction of Gund Hall, and now houses the History Department.
Harvard University (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College), a private Ivy League university, was established in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the first corporation chartered in the United States and oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. The university currently comprises ten separate academic units and has the largest financial endowment of any school in the world.
Harvard Yard, a twenty-five acre grassy area, constitutes the oldest part and the center of the campus of Harvard University. Geographically Harvard Yard is bordered to the west by Massachusetts Avenue and Peabody Street, the north by Cambridge Street, the northeast by Broadway, the east by Quincy Street, and the south by Harvard Street and Massachusetts Avenue. It contains thirteen of Harvard College's seventeen freshman dormitories, as well as four libraries, five buildings of classrooms and academic departments, and the central administrative offices of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the university. The western third of Harvard Yard, which opens onto Massachusetts Avenue at Johnston Gate, is known as the Old Yard.
Harvard Yard National Register #73000287 (1973)