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week 11/ clean-tech

The la clean tech incubator field trip was really interesting. In how the water gets repurposed in certain areas and where does the water com e from was something I did not know. In today’s world it is very important that we advance our self and try to be green because it is good for the environment and also our health. when they mention the hurricanes that were happening and how it is a good time for them to collect water was surprising because it does have major damage to the people that are receiving the impact but good for those that are not. I never noticed there was a building there and I always pass through the area. I will sure go back and learn more things they have in their offices.

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week 10/ allen

In the reading Infrastructural Urbanism by Stan Allen, talks about the 7 propositions of infrastructure.  i started thinking if Infrastructure is really important. It is important in where we live and how we live. It involves structures, roads and power. The economic growth of infrastructure are all reliable services and the need of expansion. In this reading, one proposition states that infrastructure works not so much to propose specific buildings on given sites, but to construct the site itself (pg.54). while architects work they need to take consideration the geographic and surrounding in how everything falls in order with their design. Urban planning is will always change because of the technology we are being exposed to. I do believe that infrastructure does change the design of any building what was thought of being in the site. Infrastructure brings a positive feedback ion how the structure functions and how we adapt to it culturally.

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week 2/ ecologies

In the reading “The Architecture of Four Ecologies” by Reyner Banham talks about how he sees the Los Angeles area as. He likes the beach and how the sun sets. He also talked about the highway. and how memorizing it was for him and complicated. I remember when I was a child I admired the fwy in how the connections were from city to city. Some people may think is overwhelming in taking a wrong turn but it’s the views and experience you feel and see when taking the exits of the freeways. I like how Banham did his research when he came to Los Angeles he opens my eyes in how I see the Los Angeles area. He critiques with no holding back any harsh comments and that was something I like what he did.

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week 12

In the reading “towards a critical Regionalism: six points for an architecture of resistance” by Kenneth Frampton explains the six points, Culture and Civilization: in this short reading he talks about the representation of technology and how it limits the form of urbanity. To a degree I do see that the world we are living is thriving in new technology and how it is limiting us in urban design. And how we do cover the reality with a façade that we come up with technology. But it’s a positive task in how the world is uprising by its new upcoming. Civilization should not just stay in a world of old times and be stuck in a world that is not moving forward, we adapt and learn with technology and architecture is a language that is always changing. We can’t justify that the act of learning and moving forward is resourcing our past but learn from them and try something new. architecture is something that will always change and keep changing when new technology comes in play.

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week 11

In the reading infrastructure. Having the time to find if an infrastructure will work and not have any issues can solve issues we always fall into. Designers always have a problem to find out if their project will withstand the mechanical structure. Engineers are a big part of any design they tend to figure out the aesthetic in function and problem solving. Sometimes is a good idea to figure out the structures capabilities without blowing up budget cost and deliverable time.

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week 9

The reading difficult Synthesis by Tehrani mentions that he likes exploring the relationship between materials and how is shapes design. As students we are only giving the fundamentals of design, we are not given the material, but we need to have more knowledge in materiality in how our design works and relates to the structure we our designing. We as students need to be exposed to those experiences in working with a contractor or licensed architect. We need to see the and acknowledge the disagreements with the architect and contractor, we need to see what are the factors on disagreement and compromises.

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Lecture "Heather Flood"

Heather Flood, her presentation was different what I was expecting. The project that I liked about hers was the desk project. She found a unique way to connect every desk without a hierarchy. It showed the connections it had to charge and how it had different sizes when being disconnected and did not seemed it was from the circular table. The layers of designing the table seemed a lot of work and well executed in my perspective. Loading...Show more notes

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5 Resources “"New Acropolis Museum / Bernard Tschumi”

Cites:

"New Acropolis Museum / Bernard Tschumi Architects" 27 May 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed 4 Nov 2017. https://www.archdaily.com/61898/new-acropolis-museum-bernard-tschumi-architects/

"New Acropolis Museum / Bernard Tschumi Architects" 30 june 2009 yatzer. Accessed 4 Nov 2017. https://www.yatzer.com/The-new-Acropolis-Museum-Athens-Greece-Bernard-Tschumi

 "New Acropolis Museum / Bernard Tschumi Architects” 13 Jul 2012. Arcspace. 4 Nov 2017. https://arcspace.com/feature/new-acropolis-museum/

 "New Acropolis Museum / Bernard Tschumi Architects” 26 Feb 2017 inexhibit 4 Nov 2017. https://www.inexhibit.com/mymuseum/acropolis-museum-athens/

Giotis, T. C. & Chiotis, T. (2010). The new Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece: the unique project of a lifetime! Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2010—North America, Washington, DC. Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute.

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week 7

The reading Pye Nature and Art of Workmanship, I have to agree with Pye, workmanship is a technique we as students have. it’s a unique quality in our output of design, but it all really depends on the amount and care we put and the thought of craftsmanship. Pye mentions “Design is what can be conveyed in words and by drawing and workmanship is what cannot. Design is the idea. Workmanship creates the real thing. I believe pye wanted us to see the two distinct qualities. The execution of design and workmanship. Yes, design does show us a distinct characteristic of the structure but actually making the real design and seeing that it works is an outstanding and comfortable idea that the design does work. We our being limited with technology that we are exposed to. Everything we tend to design is in space, but actually executing by building is the quality we need to have. This book was hard for me to read it reminded me of chemicals and the proof that we can show with visual understandings.

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week 6

In the reading “Animate Form” he mentions “Computer is not the brain nor nature, but it is a developed) and also a tool to make conceptual generative medium for design, for instance, the computational” I do believe that the computer is not the brain to develop but a tool to express a conceptual knowledge we as students or designers tend to show. The visions we have of buildings show the sense of design and associated with computational programmatic in design. The foundations of digital architecture are a unique way to develop, but is a situation that workable practice of computer architecture design can be an undermining way of design.

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week 5

Living in Los Angeles and always seeing the Broad from the outside was memorizing, but the tour was an outstanding experience I had. Stepping in the museum was a contrast of the façade on the exterior. The circular entrance they call the vault was a bit disappointed for me because I was expecting something more of a similarity to the façade. But going to the top floor was outstanding the exterior façade was exposed to the interior and was told the walls can move and be placed anywhere depending on the art work. While exiting the museum I caught a glimpse of the auditorium space where the façade came from the outside in. I asked myself why do they only do it in that part of the museum instead of the open space on the art work.

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materials

Different types of materials and colors used in structures can bring out cultural or sense of emotion on a person that interacts with it. materials are a way to take us back to our fondues memory. These qualities and proportionalities with the structure can trigger an emotional though that behaves well with our sense of humanity. Architects and artist usually do this on purpose to have a positive feedback from the people. An example can be in the 17th in Spain. Their characteristic includes a flat or gentle slope with red tiled roofs, arches doors, windows and porches with stucco walls and a symmetrical external construction. The red tiles roof originally gives us a sense of the background on the structure, that becomes a Spanish style home.

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Heterotopologies

In the reading Heterotopologies by Edward soja, Heterotopia is a human geography by Michel Foucault to describes places and spaces that function in non-hegemonic conditions. Knowing that heterotopias are found in all cultures, change in function and meaning overtime, it is also juxtaposing by several spaces and are linked through time. every heterotopia has a different meaning in space and time. but also seems to relate with everything. Los Angeles has tremendous design quality in which leads other people think of it in different ways. It can cause abnormality in the way some structures are designed. A sense of the past that reminds us of the old and also the new in some points. Architects thrive from the past architecture and the new architecture, by combining everything comes the future in designing. Making its own “topia”( A place with specified characteristics).

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drawing forth Difference

In the reading “drawing forth Difference” by Amy Kulper attempts to describe different types of work by architects, if they just make drawings or if they take a certain type of graphics language and a slight artistic drawing. Kupler gathers a school’s perspective they state, “that the work of the drawing is to represent a situation, to gather a constellation of references and meanings (disciplinary and cultural) against which the architectural proposition can be unpacked, understood, and appreciated.” I have to agree with this statement. Drawings should represent any type meaning, it can be materialistic or a deeper connection by the design. Architects can have a great visual important work of representation in the creative practice.

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Homework 2

While reading Kulper Pamphlet Architecture 34, I have to agree that types of techniques in drawing and designing do bring life to art and architecture. Different types of methods are unique and a sense of personality into the design. Example could be some like leaving construction lines in a drawing to show process in drawing and originality, kupler writes, “construction lines, a kind of x-rayed vision of the makes occupying what’s “not there” in the space of the drawing, envisioned through the layered representations.” I can say that construction lines are a sort of bones of the drawing expresses roughness and sensitive techniques while in the process of drawing.

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Homework 1

While reading “America” I realized that all cities have a representation that describes their characteristics. But Jean Baudrillard observation informs that America is fake in reality and the real is in Italy. I disagree with Baudrillard, him saying that America only lives in a world of fantasy and Italy lives in a world of reality. “Disney is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation.” I disagree with this statement; I believe that the entertainment is a source of escape of reality but doesn’t implement that America is a lie or fake.