architecture

TUESDAY 3:50GI2

ARCHITECTURE SHORT COURSE David Chandler

Try this link to Y.A.P. the young architects’ programmehttp://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/yap/

WEEK TOPIC ACTIVITY

1/2 post and lintel buildings; creating the basics of the classical orders. Examples for the portfolio

drawing or model making to make post and lintel structures

2/3 the wall and the arch. Examples for the portfolio

drawing or model making to make voussoirs and arches

3/4 The classical languages of Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. Examples for the portfolio

drawing or model making to make IONIC volutes

5/6 Vaults; the dome, Examples for the portfolio

Building domes

6/7 Barrel vaults and groin vaults. Examples for the portfolio

Building vaults

8 Local architecture; photography

Photography and drawing

9 Local architecture; viaduct Sketchup modelling

10 timber frames in Stockport and Cheshire

Sketchup modelling

11/12/13 Steel frames Modelling an Aqua Tower

ARCHITECTURE SHORT COURSE David Chandler

Selected student projects2006 - 2013

“pebble” project taking the changing contours of a stone to build floor plans; either freestanding or embedded in rectangular plans

Landscape environment projects

Basilica plan and elevation project using acetate sheets

Cubic modular project based on Brunelleschi’sSpedale degli Innocenti 1419.

Annular vault project