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Beyond Metaphor: Visualizing Consciousness, Hiroshi Hara

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In order to present my perspective on the distinction between 'Contemporary Architecture' and 'Modern Architecture' I use the following diagram…

Beginnings: An Introduction To Form Generation

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Work from Studio 319 Willard Isao Ameku, Scott Arford, Mark .Barnes, Michael (Odie) Deane, Amy Foster, Kevin Heath , Lara Jenkins, Mim Jitchell, John Nelson , Geffrey Ortiz-Gass, Tim Schinsky, Doug Shaffer, Bill Singer, and Bryan Zimmer.

Beginnings

The question of beginning is a profound one in design. I believe we are all victims of our process. The point of departure (i.e. the beginning) predicts one's design. The process, in tum, becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Memory And Simultaneity In Post-History

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Mystery intensifies the experience of architecture by heightening the tension between appearance and reality; by making extraordinary the ordinary. Appearance and the reliability of one's continued expectations depend on memory.

The Sacred Garden Versus The City Of Man, Stanley Tigerman

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The desire to unravel the myths of origin is expressed in humankind's ceaseless effort to attain parity with the sacred garden by displacing it with the city of man. The determination to end our exile and be readmitted to Eden is played out in the envisioning of structures designed to give expression to nostalgic dreams of heaven..

Dore After London, Wayne Michael Charney

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There was, perhaps, no other city in the world so thoroughly studied, chronicled, and recorded in 19th-century literature and art than was the city London. Charming, picturesque descriptions of London from the first half of the century eventually gave way to more sober and unattractive views by the 1860s.

Laguna Gloria Art Museum

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Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown has completed schematic designs for the Museum's new building in downtown Austin. The 82,000 gross sq. ft. museum, which concentrates on 20th century American art, will serve as a focal point for its immediate neighborhood, visually and through its various programs...

Story Telling As Design Method, Angela Balmer, Leonard Clark, Diana Dame, Kerry Gaffney, Efrem Rivers, Russell Hamlet, David Herlocker, Glenn Illert, Antoine Karam

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Why is it that so many student designs look like squared-up bubble diagrams for solving functional problems rather than visions of an architecture capable of supporting the rituals of everyday life? Why is it that so many contemporary buildings also lack a sense of aliveness and a capacity to nurture the life they contain?

Suburban Office Building: Austin, Texas

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Located west of downtown Austin, Texas, at the edge of a rapidly developing suburban neighborhood, the 6.8-acre site is near the intersection of the high speed artery Mo Pac Boulevard and Texas Highway 2222…

Akademie Der Wissenschaften Competition

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While the experience of this century has fractured and dissipated the assumption that scientific progress inevitably leads to social progress, we propose that the two are still interdependent. Confronted by a context and program charged with ironies…

Sixth Street Residence, Michael Rotondi, Tom Mayne

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Program:

The reconstruction of an existing duplex to the specifications required of the new owner.

Site:

60' x 60' parcel @ the corner of a typical residential street and an alley in Santa Monica, Calif.

Idea Vs. Icon: Two Competitions, Jeffrey Clark

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The United States is blessed with a natural landscape that is both expansive and richly varied. Our recent attitude toward the relationship between the built and natural environment, however, has been at best a naively romantic one and at worst an instrument of private exploitation...

Big Things For Big Cities

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Idea for Marconi Plaza. The symbolic purpose of this important urban project is to commemorate the Italian-American presence in Philadelphia and the contributions of this community to the City on the 500th Anniversary of Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World...

American Gardens And Their European Precedents, Joanna Lombard

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The study of American gardens and their European precedents has yielded two essential ideas. One is a way of categorizing garden form, the other an elaboration of the parts of American gardens that seem distinct and shared...

Trains, Windmills And Sand: An Entry To The Arizona Historical Society Museum Competition, Bob Burnham, Raymond Streeter

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In 1985, the Arizona Historical Society sponsored a competition for the design of a museum to be constructed on a site in Tempe adjacent to Phoenix's Papago Park. This facility is intended to house the Society's collections documenting and illustrating the Hispanic and Anglo/Hispanic periods in Arizona history...

A Crematorium Complex: Manhattan, Kansas, Robert Bahan, Laurie Carron, David Hecht, Matthew Masilionis, Rhonda Miller

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Today, a paucity of communicable design strategies or tactics exist for vitalizing the experiential and expressive relationship between built form and landscape. Landscape was not a primary concern of the Modern Movement except as a neutral green field upon which buildings were placed...

A Camp For The New Boston Cooperative: Cuyler, New York, Russell Hamlet

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The New Boston Cooperative is an association of farmers, homesteaders and fellow travelers founded in the 1930's as a last ditch-attempt to reserve the traditional rural lifestyle of the region. Today members are well-educated refugees from the cities and suburbs with the same central purposes...

Structure In The Landscape; Interventions, Peter Goin, Dale A. Bryant

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Structure in the Landscape: photographs by Peter Goin.

Interventions: a poem by Dale A. Bryant.

The Architecture Of Making In Search Of A Critical Theory Of Building, Marc Angelii

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Building is defined as the object of architecture as well as the process of architecture. The noun building and the verb to build are interrelated by a synthesis of product and production…

Issues To Models: A Prescriptive Process For Substantive Architectural Form, Merrill C. Gaines

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As all of us who teach design know, the two-headed dilemma of the studio is to assist students in developing work that is both content laden as well as formally interesting. The best students manage this quite nicely on their own; most others have difficulty with one or the other, more often than not the latter...

Harmonic Rhythm: The Essence Of An Enjoyable Design Process, Amos Ih-Tiao Chang

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While production efficiency is the rule of modern life, design efficiency has not reached the happy level it could when dealing with the human actors of our environment because the process of design - and the production of a design - is not exactly an enjoyable one...

Furniture Design Workshop

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The Department of Interior Architecture's Furniture Design Workshop offers students the opportunity to investigate the design process in three dimensions. In a series of four semesters students explore design of product, component, seating, and cabinetry...

White River Park: Indianapolis, Indiana

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White River Park originated as a reclamation project for Indianapolis and the state of Indiana. While it is intended to bring recognition, revenue, and rejuvenation to downtown Indianapolis, it will also be a park having enough places within it to attract many different kinds of people, at many different times...

Modernization And The Fireplace In Eressos, A Greek Rural Town, Eleftherios Pavlides

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In function and in symbol, common houses have traditionally provided a satisfying abode. However, with changing cultural values, owners become dissatisfied with the image of their homes and can go to extraordinary efforts to modernize them...

Brush Creek: A Design Proposal. Kansas City, Missouri, Frank Horton

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This interim study of Brush Creek includes recommendations for site and circulation development, as well as erosion and water quality control systems…

Mergenthaler Linotype Building: Chicago, Illinois

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The Mergenthaler Linotype Building, located between an expanding downtown core and the new intown "Dearborn Park" housing project, is part of a series of renovations occurring in the southern fringe of downtown Chicago. Known as Printers Row…

A Boat Yard, Steve Johnson

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The project called for the design of a new boat yard to replace one which had been destroyed by fire. The new yard was to be placed on a site composed 80% of water located on Lake Union…

A Museum Addition For A University: An Entry In The James Harrison Steedman Competition, Thomas Lance Braht

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Design Situation. During the 1880's in a midwestern city a small church was built at the edge of a college campus. This church was faithfully built in the French Romanesque manner by knowledgeable and well-traveled architects…

Design Weekend; Open House 1980, Various Authors

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A health spa on Isola Bella, Lake Maggiore, Italy. Design Weekend was conceived as an opportunity for professional designers and students to work together in an intense, three day charette situation… [Introduction by Professor David Howard Bell.]

Table Of Contents

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Contents of Volume 1, Oz

Prologue, David Howard Bell

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Editorial board and Prologue, an introduction to volume 1