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Week 14 Readings

The topic that most stood out to me from theses readings was about Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter. She was also an awesome guest speaker and brought points that really got me thinking. She was part of a lot awesome projects. The project that caught my attention the most was the material that opened up when being heated and closed when cold. I really thought that was amazing because it acts almost like it has a mind of its own and this also helps stay fresh in the hotter days and keep its temperature warm in the cooler days and this now became something I definitely want experiment with. I also thought that when she said about becoming a consultant and a specialist in one area will give you more opportunities because you can be working on more than one project at a time than being stuck through the entire process of just one was good advice for us to hear because maybe most of us just want to be an expert in a certain area and become known for that area that we’re good at. Her example of being a specialist in glass and designing so many thing for different people added to her list of works, which was the reason why other people wanted to hired as the leading person in there glass side of buildings process. When I heard that it just opened a new way of thinking and maybe I’ll take it into consideration, but overall she gave good advice and I’m glad shes a resource here at Wordbury because she a person that really wants to help and cares for the students.

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LACMA

This field trip was cool, it was my first time being there and I liked the exhibit of the 3D glasses. With the old school glasses where one lense was red and the other was blue and they also played scenes of throwback movies with the 3D feature, which was pretty cool because I think if those movies where remade in 3D they would of even better. Another part of the museum that I liked was the red balloon sculpture. I was trying to figure out what it was, but I couldn’t get my finger on it. Until they told me that it was a balloon monkey. The big rock was also memorable, it was also my first time seeing it in person and I didn’t expect it to really be that huge. I’ve always seen it in pictures, but it’s not the same thing because that rock was enormous! My overall experience was good, I would go back. The thing I didn’t like was that it was a very hot day, but other than that it was a good experience and would definitely revisit.

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The Motivation of Spatial Agency

The question that was brought up in the reading and in the lecture was, “why did you choose architecture?” When I’ve first been asked it’s like I already knew but from the lecture, it felt like there is more out there than just doing architecture for a client. We can branch off from the field and become architects in the things we want to do or see more of. If it’s either to make the world a better place, to make more eco friendly architecture, more parks, less homelessness around the world, more community gardens, more skyscrapers, literally anything. There are opportunities everywhere for us and we should aspire to take the opportunities that resonates with the reasons why we chose architecture. Just like the saying goes “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” This overall changed my thoughts on how I saw how much we can do with architecture and I believe that we’ll all feel at ease with ourselves when we practice architecture not for how much money will come out in the end result, but working for the same reasons why decided to study architecture.

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Infrastructural Urbanism + Taking Measres

I like the first proposition, “Infrastructure works not so much to propose buildings on given sites, but to construct the site itself.” I like the idea that infrastructure is the movement and connects different networks for communication because this basically determines how we are able to get around. After we develop ways to get around, we are able to construct buildings all along the site that work with the flow of the transportation. In the Taking Measures reading it speaks on how the U.S is utilizing the air as a way of transportation. Airplanes have become a more modern way on how we get around, which reduces the time and energy that would typically be used if we travel through land or sea and the same concept of constructing building after we’be established the routes and flow of transportation applies here, to construct along the site like airports, hotels, resorts and other structures that will work with the flow of the transportation.

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Complexity & Contradiction

The quote that really stood out to me was, “I am for richness of meaning rather than clarity of meaning... I prefer ‘both and’ to ‘either or’, black and white, and sometimes gray, to black and white.” This quote caught my attention because I think if architecture is looked at in a way that there can be multiple meanings and reasons why everything is designed the way it looks is beneficial because it brings a focus to the different combinations of work and styles that we can create. I like this way of thinking because sustainable architecture comes to mind when thinking of multiple meanings and reasons why certain places are designed certain ways because sustainable architecture most of the time seeks to have multipurposes and being efficient. Which in the long run becomes the most successful structure because of the thought that they put for it to have more than one function and benefit the people and environment.

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Breaking The Curve

Becoming digital brings variation in modeling and designing through softwares and programs. These can be done by almost anyone and now in a world that has become more digital, we see edits in images, music, films, and basically anything that can be produced through these applications. Mass produced variations come at no cost because the economics in digital modeling doesn’t apply, which is why this method of working is heavily used because we are able to see how the design and structures interact with each other and change the aesthetic and fundamental elements before anything in the real world is created. This also allows for someone to create complex and intricate designs and understand the bones and skin of a structure. These features also help know what materials are the most effective and could be more structurally sound for certain designs. This tool is beneficial in a variety of ways and will continue to be heavily used as we become a more digital world.

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Post-Parametric Design Intelligence

This is a method that is going to continue to thrive because there are now many mixtures of algorithms that are done by robots, softwares and diffferent technologies that are emerging to generate computational designs and digitial frabrications in jobs and industries. So with more ablitity to do work within softwares and computers there has been an huge amount of seriality, repetition, and variation that can be done, which is beneficial for us to know how a structure or design will look after it’s complete. This allows us to run multiple variations of a certain designs, which also provides us to achieve complexity before anything has begun, but there has also been another factor that this way of working has increased the lack of understanding how things can interact within each other and surrrounding. On the other hand, this way of working helps produce adaptive, differentiated, undifferentiated, composite, and universal techniques that help the development process of architectural designs.

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Cohen Fluid States

The sea has been and is the great mean of communication. The sea provides a vast number of commercial connections between other countries. Trading provides us with new knowledge towards other people and cultures and through trading we also acquire knowledge about the worlds history. Back in those times where a lot of trading and communication was done be sea, it’s best to described it as “the internet of its time.” The number of weight traveled by sea will only continue to increase with the growth of international trade that’s happening now, but there are three concepts from a perspective of a maritime, which are the “craft” , “the edge” and “the glow and the haze.” These three concepts help understand the knowledge for someone doing commercial trading with skills and practices of getting the best out of the experience.

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Mercedes Benz Museum Bibliography 

1. "Mercedes-Benz Museum / UNStudio" 24 Feb 2017. ArchDaily. https://www.archdaily.com/805982/mercedes-benz-museum-unstudio.

2. “Mercedes Benz Museum.” Arcspace.com, 9 Aug. 2012, arcspace.com/feature/mercedes-benz-museum/. 

3. “Consummate design: The architecture of the Mercedes-Benz Museum”. MediaDailmer.com. https://media.daimler.com/marsMediaSite/en/instance/ko/Consummate-design-The-architecture-of-the-Mercedes-Benz-Museum.xhtml?oid=9969320.

4. Berkel, Ben van, and Caroline Bos.“Everything is Curved: The Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart, Germany.” Architectural Design; January/February 2007, Vol. 77 Issue 1, p44-53, 10p.

5. “Mercedes-Benz Museum: UNStudio.” Log, no. 29, Fall 2013, pp. 76–87. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.woodbury.edu:880/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bvh&AN=711863&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

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Drawing Forth Difference

The role of architecture representations are changing due to what Robin Evans said, “architects don’t make buildings they make drawings.” This implies that architects only create imagery that’s full of information and concepts that communicates architectural designs. The work of drawings also represents a situation and gathers information of references and meanings that can be understood and appreciated by others. They are useable and affective for immediate responses of change of an architectural design. Drawings also encourages for experimental situations, creative practice for architects, and leads to discoveries and inventions within the drawings.

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Evans drwn stn 179-189

Stereotomy is a technique that’s was used in the seventeenth century for stone cutting. Layout drawing with precise cutting components to create complex blocks for architectural forms. Because of these skills accurate fabrications for contructions were achieved. Trompe architecture designs is a technique that creates illusions of reality that became increasingly used during the Renaissance era. This type of design allowed architects to adapt to circumstances and make it possible to combine new buildings with existing buildings without glaring discontinuities.

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Accident Andrew Zago

In architecture the materials that are used can protray feelings and expressions. There are also better materials that compliment its natural surroundings and others that are made to last for the certain environments due to the weather. For example, the Roman stone design structures have been around for years and they are still some pieces of architecture that are still standing till this day. As technology is advancing there is more room for error. These errors can cause structural collapse, fire, floods, injuries to people and negatively affect the existing environment around it. On the other hand, there are certain accidents that aren’t as distructive and either bring a aweful or gorgeous aesthetic.

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Pye Nature and Art of Workmanship

Design proposes. Workmanship disposes. This is the explanation of the process of how something gets created. The design is represented in words and drawings and the built of the design is done by the Workman which they decide if it will be a good one or not. The Workmanship of certainty predetermines the result before anything is made. The Workmanship of risk is in most cases hardly ever seen or hardly ever been known, they work freehand with hand tools and use templates. There are many alternative ways to getting the same end result, but the bigger categories that things are classified in are hand work or machine work.

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Baudrillard America Bonaventure

I can relate to the feeling of dizziness walking around seeing the world spin while the buildings still. The quote “The glass facades merely reflect the environment, sending back it’s own image.” I because seeing it from the outside you get the reflection of the other buildings from it’s exterior look just like the glasses reference that they used, it only reflects whats around it which is a characteristic that I liked. This makes the bonaventure have its form and style that stands out and captures the eyes of many people that walk and drive passed it.

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Postmodernism

A quote that I liked was, “the Bonaventure aspires to being a total space, a complete world, a kind of miniature city; to this new total space...”. I liked this because it did feel like it’s own little city in a place that already a big enough city. Walking around and noticing how huge and easily it was to get lost because it looks the same all around.

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Conversations with Students

A quote from the passsage that caught my attention was, “It’s important for the architect to adopt an aggressive posture and not allow practical issues to override his or her own ideology and aesthetic. This requires a commitment to ones dreams, an exploration of all opportunities, and the wisdom, courage, and determination to overcome real life obstacles.” This quote stood out to me because it helps understand that we should create our own uniqueness and not let anything hold us back to doing what we dreamed of doing.

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Thinking Architecture

A quote that stood out to me from this passage was, “Practicing architecture is asking oneself questions, finding one’s own answers with the help of the teacher. Whittling down. Finding solutions. Over and over again.” I like this quote because it made me think about architecture as some what an independent study and the way you find your own solutions, you start to create your style. A style that someday you become known for because every architect has a style and way of doing things that they get recognized for.