Arch520 Architectural Design, Level I: Perceptions and Processes (Graduate) 2003 MIT
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A prescription for an iterative drawing process. (Image courtesy of Milena Tsvetkova.)
Course Highlights
The class contains a complete set of studio assignments, as well as examples of the student work for each assignment in the projects section.
Course Description
This
studio explores the notion of in-between by engaging several
relationships; the relationship between intervention and perception,
between representation and notation and between the fixed and the
temporal. In the Exactitude in Science, Jorge Luis Borges
tells the perverse tale of the one to one scale map, where the desire
for precision and power leads to the escalating production of larger
and more accurate maps of the territory. For Jean Baudrillard, "The
territory no longer precedes the map nor survives it. …it is the map
that precedes the territory... and thus, it would be the territory
whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map." The map or the
territory, left to ruin-shredding across the 'other', beautifully
captures the tension between reality and representation. Mediating
between collective desire and territorial surface, maps filter, create,
frame, scale, orient, and project. A map has agency. It is not merely
representational but operational, the experience and discursive
potential of this process lies in the reciprocity between the
representation and the real. It is in-between these specific sets of
relationships that this studio positions itself.
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