preliminaries: Bubble Body drawing assignment
1.Choose a bubble from the bubble workshop with Kerstin on 28.11. (specify one foto as your base image)
2.Imagine it as a space of any scale large enough to contain you.
3.Imagine yourself within the space that bubble would make; what shape does it give to your bodyspace?
4.Draw the bubble as a space with yourself (or any human figure) inside it. Show us how that shape of space would feel to the body being in it, what shape the body’s space can take in a space of that shape.
Drawing due: after the holidays, to accompany the main homework assignment, presenting group concepts for the space.
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parallel exercise: Your Personal Space Footprint (click here)
suggested reading: from The Body Has a Mind of its Own (Blakeslee and Blakeslee, Random House 2007), ch. 7 The Bubble around the Body – PDF
extra reading: from Architectural Body (Gins and Arakawa, University of Alabama Press 2002) ch.1. Organism that Persons, ch.2. Landing Sites, and (main emphasis:) ch. 6 Notes for an Architectural Body
LECTURE: an Architectural Body for the Post-Anthropocene
Part 1: Visionary Engineering – Modernism
Part 2: Alternative Visions – Counter-Modernisms
Part 3: Other Bodies / Other Worlds
Part 4: Growing the Architectural Body (more to come…)
Part 1: Visionary Engineering – Modernism – Your Place in a Tradition
(Johannes Itten and students at morning exercises on the roof of the first Bauhaus at Weimar)
Part 2: Alternative Visions – Counter-Modernisms
Part 3: Other Bodies / Other Worlds
(coming soon) Part 4: Growing the Architectural Body
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For the Full Lecture Slides (including part 4 on Arakawa and Gins) in PDF – Click Here
Arakawa and Madeline Gins – design for a reversible destiny (more to come…)