John Zukowsky & Robbie Polley, Architecture Inside+Out, Thames & Hudson, 2018.Ĭhristian Schittich, in Detail Building Skins, Birkhauser, 2001. Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture, Dover, 1986. Ching, A Visual Dictionary of Architecture, John Wiley and Sons, 2011. Ching, Building Construction Illustrated, John Wiley and Sons, 1991.įrancis D.K. Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Experiencing Architecture, MIT Press, 1992.įrancis D.K. Research the meaning of words in advance and at your leisure. Please read materials from the above URL. Study outside of Class (preparation and review) Late arrival for more than 10 minutes or leaving early without satisfactory explanation will be considered non-attendance. Students who have less than 60% in attendance will fail. Attendance, class participation and exercise completion is important. Students are expected to be able to write, discuss and present architecture in English at the end of the class. Students will need to listen and read different texts, and solve the related problems. Wk 14*: Final presentation on an exhibition space proposal. Wk 13: A look at museum designs and review on terms. Introduction to final assignment on proposing an exhibition space for an artist. A look at Kazuyo Sejima’s 21st Century Museum in Kanazawa. Wk12: (a break) Landscape and art: Maya Lin, Michael Heizer, Richard Serra, James Turrell, Robert Smithson, Andy Goldsworthy. A review on Hong Kong Bank by Norman Foster. Wk 11*: Test: fill-in-the-blank technical terms. Wk 10: Building Skins: a look at facade details. Wk 9: A review on high rises -examples from Mies, KPF and Mori Building. Wk 8: Look through some architectural examples in “Architecture Inside+Out”. Read Steen Eiler Rasmussen’s “Experiencing Architecture”.
Wk 6: (a break) “From Shinto to Ando”: a discussion on Japanese architecture phenomenon. Wk 5*: Presentation of the villa design sketches based on Corbusier’s 5 points. Reference to Francis Ching’s Building Construction Illustrated.
Introduction to first assignment to be presented on Wk 5 (design sketches and presentation of a simple villa based on the theory of 5 points.)
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Wk 1: An overview and introduction to famous Western architects like Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Renzo Piano, KPF, Rem Koolhaas… plus some previous projects that I had worked on. In this class we will explore architectural issues with the use of English.Īble to use basic English for communicating and presenting architectural ideas.Ī2 Understanding architecture from different perspectivesī2 Understanding architectural design and spatial planningĬ2 Understanding how architecture affects societyĬ3 Acting with correct judgement based on historical and social understanding Architecture has local concerns, and yet its influence is global, and sometimes timeless.Īlthough English does not have the largest number of native speakers in the world, it is the global working language of arts and science, as well as in international project collaborations. Corbusier was originally from Switzerland and had moved to France. There it begins.“ Mies van der Rohe was originally from Germany and had moved to America. Mies van der Rohe said, “God is in the details.“, ”Less is more.“, ”Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: ‘This is beautiful. “You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. Le Corbusier said, in Vers une architecture (1923)
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