Post-tutorial notes

[Tuesday 4 November]

 

Notes from Tuesday tutorial 081104 (first sketch model)

Only corners. A drawing that's all corners. A model that's all corners. A building that's all corners.

 

How define a corner?

 

Dan Graham? (Mirrors, reflections, transparent/translucent/reflective/opaque + corners...)

 

The dislocated corner...

Grid? Beyond grid? How set the corner free from the grid?

 

Look at corners of Scarpa, Mies, PJ... Go through precedent corners.

 

Stereotomic corner?

 

Focus on the beginning and the end, without the suspension in between?

 

Negate, re-evaluate the grid.

 

Just a crossing doesn't need a grid. Introduce fault lines as grid lines, and you destroy the grid. Rotate along those fault lines, or use them as starting point/datum for other actions? (Rotating/scaling/stretching, bending, curving, spinning, spiraling, mirroring...)

 

Inverted, boolean corners...

 

Precedent corner study for TS? [Check Alex's old mate from Shin's unit...]

 

For Friday: corner model + manifesto.

 

Take out Rem/Eisenman video.

Take out Kipnis video.

 

Local iconicity as opposed to global, overall iconicity? The return of the fragment from PJs Glass House! A set of local icons rather than one single, overarching - though one does take precedence (because of its uniqueness, its materiality, its iconic programme...).

 

Distributed, and thus affective (since it demands an interaction between user/visitor and building) iconicity.

 

Look up Robert Somol ("shape, not form", Green Dots) and Bruce Mau.

 

Look at corners at other scales: the corner of the block, of the building, of the city, of the world, of the frame...

 

The 3d "crack" (change the word into something else) as non-topological anti-surface.

 

Cutting corners. Moving the corner in order to transform the space, amplify or silence, speed up or slow down the spatial experience...

 

The Glass House is a house of corners, the glorification of spatial demarcation - the demarcation of the demarcation itself. What's left when the walls disappear? The corners. (Draw it this way?)

 

Now: find formal language, devices, techniques. Pick out words from manifesto and make dictionary: figrue, compression, local vs distributed iconicity.

 

The folded corner > 2d to 3d = 2.5d?

 

Radical rethinking of the corner.

 

Check reading lists throughout history, especially the DRL shelf, to understand where the discourse has been focused.

 

Seriality: Yokohama (series of spaces) vs Embryonic House (iterations). A question of process/time?

 

Three white book texts: re-brief, quoted manifesto, new manifesto. (Wiki entry! A meta narrative. Make up people that Johnson quotes. The person who 'is' the corner.)

 

Plus a section on programmatic intent?

 

Each part of the white book has its own form?

 

A house without a middle, without content. An architecture that's all corner and no content. Corny?

 

Eva Hesse. Plus the mirrors in nature by Robert Smithson.

 

Look at wood joinery for corner studies?

 

The frame builds the image - Warhol.

 

Do read Rosalind Krauss on formlessness.

 

Whitebook sections: Research, material, plates, manifesto... New paper! Print on A3, double-sided tape.