CLASS 1: INTRODUCTION TO METAFORMS http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/
photograph: drama d.k. Aug/2008 CLASS 2: THE MAGIC AROUND YOU READ: Delirious New York by Rem Koolhaas pg .29 Coney Island: The Technology of the Fantastic (PDF handout) WORK: create your own tag / go tag it / photograph the tag / and explain LINKS: Style Wars on Google Videos // parkour // banksy // GRL // space invaders // CLASS 3 Beyond representation //Investigating emergent architectural forms and computation techniques// READ: Illuminations by Benjamin , The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (linked here as a PDF dowload) WORK: Write a manifesto (details to be discussed in class), Manifestos should be no longer than one page. Each of you will write a one page manifesto and post it to your digital sketchbook. The manifesto will be your declaration of architecture. This could be a purpose, principle, or plan of action. See it as an attack on a conventional way of thinking about architecture. A manifesto is about statements. Make statements. Manifestos are often political or make an argument. Please try to spend less time researching and more time writing. Treat this as an expansion of your thoughts, as they exist now, and how you would declare architecture! To get started think of how architecture effects your life, your path, your response to your daily environment. Think about architecture and : power, control, constraint, scale, problem, social, culture, history, theory,love, hate, etc. You can be very specific to a particular relationship that you have with architecture, or you can be broad and write a take over the world manifesto. Please make it no longer than one page. Choose one image to accompany your manifesto this can be a photograph or a graphically produced image. Take a look at: Antonio Sant'Elia manifesto as a related example: http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/architecture.html And read about archigram: http://www.designmuseum.org/design/archigramhttp://www.archigram.net/index.html
LINKS:METAFORMS DELICIOIUS: Visit the Metaforms delicious site, a place to post links in class. Please post your links and references that you have emailed or mentioned in class here. The user name is METAFORMS andpassword is fall2008 http://delicious.com/METAFORMS
CLASS 4: POLITICS POWER and SPECTACLE WORK: Conduct and interview with a person inside the system. Ten questions or more. The theme of the interviews will be announced in class. Look at Sample Volume article.Choose a SITE for your METAFORM . Obtain a collection of maps, visuals, photos, etc for this site.
CLASS 5 Manipulation of the environment // creating inventive mediums for architecture //Storytelling //Looking at the people of modern architecture and the structures they are known for//Understanding the futurists, structuralists, and modernists. READ: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (linked here as a PDF) Cities & Memory // Cities & Desire WORK: Metaform Idea Development CLASS 6: Boundaries // Constraints // Design Rules //The Shaping of Space // Fabrication techniques //Looking at external and internal forces // agents // codes// influences that guide form // Situating of public and private space // Perfromance over time //Blurring the divisions of inside and outside //Injecting a live element into the form // Understanding the layers and skins
CLASS 7:MIDTERM REVIEW WITH INVITED GUEST CRITICS. DISCUSSION TO CONTINUE AT AFTER PARTY o, your feedback was very helpful! CLASS 8: HUMANS AND ROBOTS // 8pm GUEST PRESENTERS GIL AKOS AND RONNIE PARSONS. -- the grasshopper plugin.
CLASS 9: MATERIALS AND THE FUTURE// WHAT ARE OPTIONS FOR MAKING THE METAFORM HAPPEN IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD// OUTPUT // SCLAE. READ: the introduction to Design Noir - via google below Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects Materials Lecture download here CLASS 10: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER// Class visit to the Advanced Media Lab at NYU. Rapid Prototyping, 3D printing, and laser cutting. For those interested please meet at the Advanced Media Studio for an orientation. The Advanced Media Studio on the second floor of 35 West 4th street. The orientation will take about an hour. Please let me know if you will be attending.
CLASS 11: PRODUCTION OF YOUR FINAL METAFORM
CLASS 12: FINAL REVIEW!!
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METAFORMS: OVERVIEW
YOUR INVOLVEMENT : YOU : CRITIQUE This course will allow you to make intelligent decisions about design and topics in architecture. You will be required to ask questions and be an extremely critical audience to your classmates and your own work. In this class you will work hard and your contribution will add to the intensity to the class dynamic. Participation is key to getting the most from this class. At the midterm and final we will have a review with invited guests from ITP community, the architecture community, and the art community. The critique format will provide each student with honest sometimes too honest feedback. ****Please be prepared to defend your project. The strongest projects often create the most discussion, debate, and madness for the visitors. Critique is a very impotant part of this class and is taken very seriously! dlk253 (at) nyu.edu CLASS WEBSITE: The website will be your resource to what is happening on a weekly basis. Please visit the website before every class!! FIELD TRIPS : HAVE YOUR CAMERAS READY We will make many site visits to various NYC architecture hot spots, these trips will be spontaneous departures from class, so when you arrive in class always be prepared to step outside and take a short walk. READINGS : READ THEM : QUESTION THEM I will hand out PDF readings in Class or link them to the syllabus. There is no required text for this class but when I give you a reading you will be expected to read it for the next class. Stop by St. Marks Books go to the magazine rack and and sift through the recent issue of Volume Magazine / 30.60.90. / and Seed. If you really want to dive in please pick up copies of: Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture: City, Technology and Society in the Information Age. EVENTS / LECTURES / EXHIBITS : GO SEE THEM You will be expected to integrate yourself into activities that will expand your mind outside of class. Often I will require the class to see and exhibit or attend a lecture. When going to events please document the event in whatever format you wish and be ready to speak about you experience at the next class. DOCUMENTATION : YOU HAVE TO DO IT EVERY WEEK Metaforms will have a course website. Each student is responsible for creating a Metaforms digital sketchbook. This can be an online place for archiving all of the work, writing, ideas etc for this class. Please send me a link the first week of class. The digital sketchbook will also have a physical counterpart so please bring a sketchbook to class. FORMAT : SPONTANEOUS : LECTURES : DISCUSSIONS : PRODUCTION TIME Each class will have a set lecture followed by class discussion, examples, and critique of project development. Readings listed are due the following week.
GUIDELINES: FOLLOW THEM Grading: We are on the Pass Fail System for 1st Years only. OFFICE HOURS : LETS TALK ABOUT YOUR PROJECT Tuesday afternoon before and after class. Please make and appt. with me. DANA KARWAS IS: An artist living and working in NYC. Currently she is working with Maya Lin Studio on the WHAT IS MISSING? Digital Memorial which will debut at the California Academy of Sciences in September 2009 http://www.dk22.comor http://www.winerkarwas.com |
METAFORMS STUDENTS:
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Metaforms is a studio course offering a broad range of topics focused on progressive architectural discourse framed by new media. The goal of the class is for each student to produce an architectural form which inhabits an urban public space in New York City. The forms need not be traditional architectural constructs, but new strategies towards defining an architecture that can be expressed through new technologies. Students are encouraged to imagine the impossible and to integrate metaforms into the contemporary city. Science- fiction sites, transportation paths, urban anomalies, invisible boundaries, and temporary autonomous zone are examined and developed as metaform habitats. The semester long project is divided into two parts: expressions and interventions. The first section, expressions, addresses contemporary architectural tendencies that unfold to inhabit the spaces of urban environments. The second part, interventions, activates communication strategies to connect the metaforms to actual public spaces within New York City. The class work culminates in final presentations critiqued by guest reviewers from related fields. No prerequisites or architectural experience is needed, however, previous knowledge of at least one programming language is strongly recommended (processing, max/msp/jitter, maya, flash etc.). http://www.dk22.com/metaforms