Architecture 101Learning how to learn.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn.

Mário Pertile

Is hard to look insideyourself because you neverknow who will be there.

I learned that

But is the only way to starta conversation.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. What I’ve learned.

#RelativeSizeOfThings

I need to set parameters.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. What I’ve learned.

zoom in & zoom out my point of view.Taking pictures I can

Pictures are print screens of natural world

and a excelent start point.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. What I’ve learned.

#50000YearsAgo

Lights on. Is better.

To know myself

and to control my

shadows.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. What I’ve learned.

making of // light test

Perspective, lights, shadows.Tools. To do. To doc. To share.

The space inside a glass of water.A square that fits the crowd inside my room.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. What I’ve learned.

#MusicWithoutSound

Good way to start.#TVWithoutSignal

Now I know.

I felt wet. Sweaty.When I thought about my place.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. What I’ve learned.

#SomePeopleWalk

I had not thought

about this place yet.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. What I’ve learned.

#ThingsWithNoName

I have a good way to start,

From scratch,To think about my place.

With a communityand many shared tools.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. What I’ve learned.

#PlayItByTrust

I learned about to see with all senses.

About what others can see that I could notand about what I can see that others can’t.

I learned about how to start.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. What I’ve learned.

#MySunMachine

#ExcuseMeWhile

Everythinghave more than oneside and possibly morethan one meaning.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. What I’ve learned from others.

pic: @sirmarkdavid

And lights,combined with textures,

can produce magnificentshadows to give a new

meaning to a place.

Or to create one.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. What I’ve learned from others.

pic: @declairelegenou

It can even changethe perceptionof digital to analog.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. What I’ve learned from others.

pic: @allav00

Light can enteron my place. Or not.

Depends of my frame.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. What I’ve learned from others.

pic: @guess_ana

To use mental tools.If you domains a tool,you can adapt your mentalprocess to this.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. What I’ve learned from others.

pic: @jaurinu

As a line starts as a dot,a place starts from a point.

A start point. And takes shape.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. What I’ve learned from others.

pic: @silviapeets

When we mixed updifferent things we can have

nice results to play with

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. What I’ve learned from others.

pic: @rebecaporras

Meaning and valueare dependent of context.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. What I’ve learned from others.

pic: @viviane.btk

I’m kind of nomad.Walking between adaptations.

Time by time.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. My place.

#RomanceInManyDimensions

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. My place.

#YouGottaHave #StealingThingsIs #WhatMakesTheDesert

For the first time I was thinking about a place

that was mine.

I had the tools.Is time to set up

my relationship with my place.

A square.Walls to protect me from the wind.Doors to make me free.Everything needs to be accessible.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. My place.

#OnesDestination

Now I see,Doors are my key.

I’m in a trasition place.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. My place.

#ALineIsADot

Each door is a path.And I need to choose.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. My place.

#YouCantCriticize

I need to choosethe best path for my place.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. My place.

#HumanBehaviourFlows

I need a placeto take a decision.This transition place.Could be in a limited island.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. My place.

#NoManIs

Or in the infinityof sideral space.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. My place.

#ThisWorldIs

Simple.I need walls, doors, a place in the center.A cigarret and a whisky.

Now I have my transition placeto choose my path.

Architecture 101Learning how to learn. My place.

#End

Architecture 101My illustrated essay.

Is hard for a individual that don't have a real fixed place,

changing location against their will, to know by himself

what means "place". "Place", in this case, is a temporary

space to virtually call ‘‘yours’’. But, unconsciously, never

was and never will be. So, you can't make an constant and

timelined exercise of enjoy a place with roots, with time,

without be aware to, without warning, changes everything.

In most of cases, ones need to be like Sniff & Scurry, the rats

of Who Moved My Cheese?, from Spencer Jhonson. To

think fast but carefully in a way to set up a new place, most

dockable as possible, accounting the place pre-established

constraints. This way of life is good for a mount of things,

but not to daily exercise the act of being in a particular place.

This essay is about this intensive journey to set up a real

place to call mine, in my mind, and start from scratch

because nothingness is the constant now.

My journey from nothingness to place.

As mentioned, is hard to start from scratch, in the middle

of a lifetime, counting 60 years lifetime, more or less,

without a real experience of a place to call yours. Is hard,

because in a little bit more of 30 years, don't had the exercise

of being in a secure place that, if everything goes wrong, you

can stay calm and safe. Physically speaking, is odd to

maintain a organization or mental process that fits in your

needs in a place you can't make modifications, put some

drawers or paint the walls.

The difficulties starts in the weakness of references

since the very beginning period, when as a child. The person

can not fix references of address, group of friends (like

"people of school" and "people of neighborhood") and other

references that are fundamental to the personality

development and to shape the future thoughts and needs.

Everything ends being "on the go". As a result of this

weakness, you have a individual that past the most part of his

life do not giving the necessary attention to a "place".

Without thoughts, just little unconscious insights, start to

think about one particular place is a journey by itself.

According Paulo Freire, that defends many thesis

about how the life-experience on the individual's education

can change the paths of his attention,

“No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-

experience in the world that we become what we are.”

A individual without physical or mental references

about a place since forever may become a person with

several difficulties to set up a place that fit on his needs, for

the simple fact that he never thought about this. This kind of

constant behavior and way of thinking turns the person in a

part of every place that he is in. In every place this person

will try to identify herself with a object, a color, a smell,

because the need for a place is unconscious for him, for the

reason that he never thought about this. Is hard to start now,

because is hard to know how to start.

In the other hand, this same person have too many

unthought needs that have to come to the top of the iceberg.

Many ideas and mental connections that needs to be made

that could not be made in the certain time. This unconscious

needs are waiting for a little spark will come handy when the

exercise of start a place from nothingness become daily in a

intensive way.

If you exercise the state of have a place your entire life,

you may have difficulties to set up something different that

you had. If you have the same references your entire life,

maybe you lost many connections that could be made and

that would help in the start. The safeness of have the same

references for all the life until now can create a state of

comfort zone that inhibits the creative process and

difficulties the process to absorb a large scale of content in a

short period, for the simple reason that without the spirit of

adaptation and constant search for any kind of temporary

reference creates a safe mental place that don't allow the

individual to make ventures in contents, links or references,

having a oldschool though that the learn needs to be from

outside to inside, and not from the real needs.

In this points and others similar that involves attitude,

sense of research, adaptation and community feelings, a

person without references since the beginning of her life

could have more advantage in to set up something from

scratch, in a short period of time, with more malleability to

deal with contents in a not-linear deliver. This ability to deal

with the proposed scenario and adapt in, could be the vector

to absorb the content, adapt the content to the actual reality

and starts the sparks insofar as it the thoughts about start a

journey from nothingness to a very particular place are

exercised.

Sigmund Freud says:

``Thinking in pictures, stands nearer to unconscious

processes than does thinking in words, and is unquestionably

older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.``

A camera, for example, can be a very useful tool for a

person without references to start. A simple way to register,

document and organize insights, patterns and references that

can't be translated with words. Things with no name. A

person without roots references tends to easily find a second

meaning, or a third, in ordinary things. A person with

reference, well, have the reference and tends to be more

objective on his thoughts. The challenge here is to use the

weakness of a timelined reference of place and what this

brings with the past of time as a advantage to the creativity

and try to focus on the objective of to, first, discover where

you are, and then, to find the path to moving on for where

you want to be.

My journey with architecture and the space started

almost one year ago in Siracusa, in the Architecture

Between the Sea and the Sky Summer Camp. At this

moment, architecture, besides concepts inserted in

Design1o1 MOOC, was an all new issue to start to think.

Needs to define a space to deal with, in another country,

culture and language seemed to be hard, but the fact that I

don't had this reference of "my particular place", roots and

all that involves the place, helped me to find this references

in the local culture as mine. This way was easy to absorb the

particularities of the place and to find a concept to deal in a

new location. I looked to this references as safe points to

communicate myself, to start conversations and to know

where to start. I looked for this references because in the

beginning of the journey, I was not safe, without this. And

that experience helped me to start a conversation with

myself about my particular place. Now, with Architecture

1o1,I start to put in practice this knowledge, this pursuit for a

reason, an objective, in the middle of references. I started

from scratch one year ago, just in theory, and now, I am in the

practice to find my place.

Taking pictures of no name things was a magnificent

experience, once that gave me the ability of no judgment.

This thing is that, but could be another thing, If I want to.

Without the lifetime place reference, I could shoot my

camera for any side, without previous judgment. I learn

about lights, shadows and perspective in practice. Learning

to sketch taught me how I can use this tool when I am not in a

place. Taught me how to be safe without a table and a pen or

a computer to start from scratch when I have the need.

Making collages showed me how to place ideas, not

necessary mines, in a same page and to play with visual

thoughts and roughs. Observing the weather, besides the

techniques learned, Taught me how to use the weather, until

the bad weather, as advantage in my project. Shaping

diagrams helped me to organize myself until in a hard

content situation. To put ideas in a logical order, ready to

execute. Drawing maps helps me to put everything learned

in this first part of journey in a visual state and find what

place I am now.

Today I'm able to see that my special place, the place that

I'm now, and the place that I need to pay attention to have the

ability to moving on is a transitional place. With all this

knowledge acquired, I'm able to use my weakness of

reference place and roots to be more safe when I need to

execute something. Everything can be mobile and now I can

be too. The doors are my keys. The doors can be opened to

most several number of places. All places are good, but with

different approaches that need to be analyzed. The final

point of this first part of my journey is this transition point. A

simple square with doors to be opened and a comfortable

place in the middle with a cup of whisky. A place without

things to call my attention. A place with a calm, quiet and

peaceful moment inside.

. A place that I can be lost for a moment and then find a

solution. To take a decision. What door I will open to find my

final place? My final place need to be realized inside my

actual place. At this moment, is clear that I can't take a

decision about my place because the issues proposed at the

beginning of the essay, but this weakness of reference place

made me to take all kind references, suppress all that don't

matter and to put the rest in a transitional place. An

emergency HQ that provides the safety to think more clearly

about what I need, instead of what I want. Now, I have a safe

place to think about the next step of my life. My previously

experience tells me to take a break in a provisional place, all

set up for this, and to choose carefully what door to open.

My journey from nothingness to a place ends with a place to

reflection. Is what my previous experience without a

particular place plus the knowledge absorbed in this first

part to make my place concludes.

Architecture 101 - Part 1An introduction to space and architecture offered by

Abadir Accademy of Design and Fine Arts and Iversity.

Booklet + Illustrated Essay

by Mário Pertile. February, 2015.

Porto Alegre/RS - Brazil

www.mariopertile.com.br

Apps used in the images:

Pictures: Instagram and Android Gallery effects

Sketchs: SketchbookX

Collages: Photogrid

Geometrical: DrawExpress

Mosaics: Kaleidoscope

Presentation: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop & Corel Draw

Instructors:

Stefano Mirti, Anne Sophie Gauvin and Petronela Nita