WE ARE GOING TO MEET FIRST IN BARN 108. Tell your friends.
Read the quotes below and the downloadable article, Scherr_GridAsBasisOfDesign to the left. Bring your drafting equipment and paper to THE BARN at the beginning of class on Tuesday. We'll draft in class in Solberg 130 after a brief charge in THE BARN. You can leave your drafting stuff and at least one sheet of 24" by 24" vellum ready to draw on.
In addition to some drawing you will have a new reading: EvansR_archreprojection to complete by Tuesday 22 February. You can begin reading this now to keep up.
In addition to some drawing you will have a new reading: EvansR_archreprojection to complete by Tuesday 22 February. You can begin reading this now to keep up.
Read these quotes carefully:
The Rub: Rationalism or Detachment
Here lies the rub. Is the rectilinear matrix to be regarded as a rationalist homogenizer, an
organizer, or is it a neutral tool which confronts that which is beyond the rational to remain
autonomous, authentic, "sauvage"? The grid assists measure, to map, to reveal, confront,
frame, connect or disconnect. Like a hunter's net, it can be thrown over the undulating hide of
the planet. Perhaps the survival of the American Wilderness is contingent on the specific
distance the Jeffersonian grid imbues. It can be the frame to transfer an actual body to a new
scale such as a woman to odalisque, or the celestial plane to be read in distance and time. It
can be used as a constant and objective frame to amplify subtle differences, define a limit
from which precise relationships can be recorded, thus a locator of the subjective. Ad
Reinhardt came closest to dissolving it into a series of boundaries, which submerge and
appear within the span of time.
Simultaneity of the Conceptual and the Physical
The difference between the grid as conceptual and the grid as physical is a primary dialectic
of architectural language. Is the grid intersection a point of inhabitation, or is it occupied by
structure? Or can the column or pier be inhabited, as Le Corbusier among others projected?
Is the grid an imaginary limit, centerline, or can it thicken into a member, or warp to express
forces?
"THE GRID: FORM AND PROCESS IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN"
Diane Lewis
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...the bottom line of the grid is a naked and determined materialism.
"GRIDS"
Rosalind Krauss
THE NINE SQUARE PROBLEM IS USED AS A PEDAGOGICAL TOOL in the introduction of architecture to new students. Working within the problem the student begins to discover andunderstand the elements of architecture. Grid, frame, post, beam, panel, center, periphery, field. edge, line, plane, volume, extension, compression, tension, shear, etc. The student begins to probe the meaning of plan, elevation, section and details. They learn to draw. They begin to comprehend the relationships between two dimensional drawings, axonometric projections, and three dimensional (model) form. The student studies and draws his scheme in plan and in axonometric, and searches out the three-dimensional implications in the model. An understanding of the elements is revealed, an idea of fabrication emerges.
"9-Square Grid"
John Hejduk
Peter Eisenman's projections of houses:
Think about making 9 square grids with lines, planes, and solids.
