IV. Bricolage

IV: Bricolage

I: What is Design?

Architecture IV

II: Craft

Bull’s Head, Pablo Picasso
 
Playtime: Jacques Tati
American Baloon Frame

Architecture IV
Studio Tom Emerson
Tuesday 10.03.15 8:15am
HIL E3


Further Reading

Isaiah Berlin, The Hedgehog and the Fox
Claude Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind
Charles Jencks, Nathan Silver, Adhocism


Further Viewing

Jacques Tati, Playtime
Jacques Tati, Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
Tom Sachs, Space Program
Buster Keaton, The Scarecrow

Architecture IV

Studio Tom Emerson
Tuesdays 8:15am
HIL E3


The first four lectures are a quartet providing the thematic introduction to the rest of the course. They draw upon diverse sources — from architecture, anthropology, history and culture — and serve as reflections on design, skill, craftsmanship and nature: broadly the context in which we practice architecture today.

The six lectures that follow are a series of more in-depth case studies from the long twentieth century. They focus on particular architects and places, exploring how the making of the city can be described in making and construction, just as much as by the history of urban design. The final lecture on the Picturesque — and ultimately our place within nature — brings the series to a close.

It may quite simply be an anthropology of architecture. But in this case, one not written by anthropologists but by architects. It is about being modern and pre-modern. It is about being local and globalized. It is about material, culture and skill. As a whole, the series will make you reflect on larger issues to do with how we construct the world.

Course Schedule

I: What is Design?
Tuesday 17th February

II: Craft
Tuesday 24th February


III. Mies Makes
Tuesday 3rd March

IV: Bricolage
Tuesday 10th March


V: Plecnik in Ljubliana
Tuesday 24th March


VI: Stirling's Arrows
Prof Dr Laurent Stalder
Tuesday 31st March


VII: Crafting Design in Post-war Italy
Dr Catharine Rossi
Tuesday 14th April


VIII: Real Estate Opportunities: Frank Gehry & LA
Tuesday 21st April


IX: Dirty Old River: London (Part I)
Tuesday 28th April


X: Lina Bo Bardi
Nicholas Lobo Brennan
Tuesday 12th May


XI: Dirty Old River: London (Part II)
Tuesday 19th May

Architecture IV

Studio Tom Emerson
Tuesday 17.02.15 8:15am
HIL E3


Further Reading

Michel Houllebecq, The Map and the Territory
William Morris, News From Nowhere
Richard Sennett, The Craftsman

Architecture IV

Studio Tom Emerson
Tuesday 17.02.15 8:15am
HIL E3



Further Reading

Tim Ingold, Making
Tim Ingold, The Perception of the Environment
Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern
Claude Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind
David Pye, The Nature and Aesthetics of Design
David Pye, The Nature and Art of Workmanship


Further Viewing

Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon
Sergei Bondarchuk, Waterloo

The Wright brothers’ wind tunnel
 
 
Duchamp vs the Wright brothers
 
Plate on nail-making in Diderot's Encyclopédie
Robinson Crusoe
 
Gutenberg Press
Lunar rover’s improvised mudguard
 
John Harrison’s Marine Timekeeper
Buster Keaton: The Scarecrow
 
Blackwell, Bailie Scott
Figure-ground plan of Wiesbaden (from Collage City)
David Griffin and Hans Kohlhoff: City of Composite Presence (from Collage City)