Wednesday, April 20, 2011

MY COMMENTS ON OUR CLASS BLOG LINKS

Some advice on the design process
its funny how I as a student what to do everything right and am so afraid of my thoughts yet as in the video, my life is where I have to draw information from and also put it together. Further more, sketched-and keep at it, as there the first solution is not the only one and putting information together is good.


Dutch Profiles: Rem Koolhaas

Interesting architect, or should I say thinker-starchitect. It is about analysis and research, this means thoroughly critical researching and thinking- analysis everything, always go back and redesign, find other ways.
One thing that got my attention was that he said as an architect he is there to change the situation...

Great Architects - Peter Zumthor - 2009 Pritzker Prize Laureate

Firstly love the idea, the concept and the building. Bathing born of the mountain- that was his conceptual idea and he took it through every thought process. What I think was important was the fact that he focused on the function and not the immediate aspects at hand.
Movement through different spaces, interplay of openings, blending into the landscape...it all came together.