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Category Archives: Studio Programme Year 5
Studio Programme 2006/2007
BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE 2006/2007 MILAN: ON WITH THE MOTLEY… The relationship between forms of architecture and modes of dress has been theorised by the likes of Gottfried Semper, Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos since the middle of the nineteenth century. … Continue reading
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City of Fashion? Where’s the architecture?
Cesar Pelli’s project for the Citta della Moda in Milan brings to mind the following thoughts: While private entities seek to extend their control over urban space and public bodies surrender management to commercial concerns, the iconography of the public … Continue reading
Fashion versus Convention
“Today, the idea of erudition, of the architect as connoisseur has been rejected. It is curious that in a world of increasing specialisation, where artists and scientists are making dynamic new work from within their disciplines, architects have followed the … Continue reading
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The fashionable money is on Semper…
“…the beginning of building coincides with the beginning of textiles. … The Wall is the structural element that formally represents and makes visible the enclosed space as such, absolutely, as it were, without reference to secondary concepts. We might recognise … Continue reading
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Monument and Sign
“In the San Lorenzo we see today, the various types of additions to it, from the medieval … to the Renaissance …, are still apparent, while the entire structure occupies the place of the ancient Roman baths, in the very … Continue reading
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Surface reflections
“Today fashion may again offer a model for architecture… . The fluid boundaries in contemporary women’s fashion underscore the continued rigidity in architecture discourse, an avant-garde moralism that is all too evident in the peculiarly puerile debates – deconstructivism versus … Continue reading
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Gladrags
Oskar Kokoschka, Gertrud and Arnold Schönberg, and Adolf Loos in Berlin’s Bristol Bar, 1927. “In the beginning was cladding. Man sought shelter from inclement weather and protection and warmth while he slept. He sought to cover himself. The covering is … Continue reading
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On with the motley
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