ARC 560R Advanced Design (4th & 5th year students) and
ARC 696 Advanced Architectural Design (graduate students)

GRAPHIC CALCULATING INTO ARCHITECTURE: A NEW-OLD PRAGMATISM: THE SECOND TIME

FORM-U-LAT'N STUDIO: PART II

Instructor: Richard Swallow, Professor and Paul Philippe Cret Centennial Teaching Fellow in Architecture, SUT 4.112, 471-0147, swallow@mail.utexas.edu

We dream of employing various graphic calculating software, as a creative tool toward finding dynamic space defining forms, while remaining committed to being classically pragmatic, in the sense of mathematical purity, and being economically and environmentally sound in the use of materials and toward constructibility: The art of architecture and the art of building through mathematics, if you will.

Beyond the main initial activity of . . .

1. Explorations in 3 -D Graphic Calculating: form and space manipulations through time,

There will be the following activities required during the semester: . . .

2. History and Theory Report (research, diagramming, typologies, and writing);
3. Mechanical and Freehand Drawing Methodologies (in design process, presentation, and construction documents);
4. Computer Graphics, Modeling, Light Rendering, Radiosity, and Animation (in design process, presentation, and model construction documents);
5. Shop Fabrication (large scale, but not full scale, model-building and testing);
6. Application to a Real Architectural Program
(Appropriate possibilities for discussion: railway station, airport terminal, convention hall, mercado, sports area, university art museum, or any building that has symbolic significance in a city and that will probably require a large concourse-like space); Projects last year (Spring 2001) included redesigning the roof of the Austin Airport, designing the major spaces of a new Austin Museum, and explorations in mixed use with serious interaction of automobiles and pedestrians and shopping on the "Western Fringe" of Downtown Austin

And . . .

7. The Production of a Publication (8 1/2 x 11" - hard-copies of writing and drawings and web-site) of this work (All presentations will be designed toward this goal with about twenty pages devoted to summarizing the work done by each student.).

We donšt expect that one person will excel in all these areas, although that would be magnificent if you can. But we do expect everyone to produce great works in both the Explorations stage (1) and the Real Program stage (6). And excel in one of the others (2 through 5.). And everyone to help make the publication (7) a reality in which you can be proud.

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