Poetics + Pragmatics: A Design Studio Companion
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2018
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Poetics + Pragmatics, a companion guide for teachers and students of design, aims to capture the core concepts in teaching beginning design. It provides insight into both the language and the process of design. The book introduces themes important to the education of an architect or designer — abstraction, drawing, body in space, light, site, sustainability, and making. Sample assignments and student projects, as well as essays by architectural educators, make it a valuable resource for both educators and students alike.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter Summaries
1 Abstraction
On Slowness by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien
Unlearning by Kyna Leski
Exercise 1: Line, Square, Rectangle
Exercise 2: Pattern Making
Exercise 3: Stereotomic and Tectonic
2 Drawing
The Evolving Role of Drawing by Nicholas Olsberg
Drawing Out of the Void by Dean Almy
Exercise 4: Drawing as Analysis
Exercise 5: Intersecting Volumes
Exercise 6: Object in Space | Hybrid Perspective
3 Body in Space
10 Points for Design in the Realm of the Senses by Larry Doll
Body by Igor Siddiqui
Exercise 7: Microprograms
Exercise 8: Movement Diagrams
Exercise 9: Thresholds
4 Light
Silence and Light by Louis Kahn
The Power of Light by Allison Gaskins
Exercise 10: Light, Shade, Shadow
Exercise 11: Brise Soleil | Hybrid Perspectives
Exercise 12: Light and Space
5 Precedents
History as Silent Partner by Jeff Blocksidge
Architectural History for Beginners by Christopher Long
Architecture and Society by Larry Speck
Exercise 13: Precedent Abstraction
Exercise 14: Moment Collage
6 Site
The Quest for Architectural Topographies by Toma Berlanda
Site Truths by Hope Hasbrouck
Which came first, the map or the world?* by Nichole Wiedemann
Exercise 15: Interpreting Site | Mapping Site
Exercise 16: Nature Studies
7 Sustainability
Sustainable Design by Werner Lang
The Temperaments of Sustainability by Phil Tabb
Exercise 17: Water Instrument
Exercise 18: Water, Sun, Wind
Exercise 19: Tectonics: Bird Blind | Site Situate
8 Making
A Way of Looking at Things by Peter Zumthor
Ground-Truthing: Crafting Poiesis by Coleman Coker
Digital | Analogue by Francisca Aroso Pinto De Oliveira and Joyce Rosner
Exercise 20: Wood Joint
Exercise 21: Casting 22
Exercise 22: Architecture in Motion
Credits & Biographies
Endnotes
Image Credits