SIENA10 LORENZETTI REDUX/Good and Bad Government Collages

NAME: Shawntel Young
PROJECT: lorenzetti redux
ASSIGNMENT: collage/essay

Link:

http://shawntel2010.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/collage-o-trash/?preview=true&preview_id=201&preview_nonce=330a4c3d01

Montepulciano: Chiesa di San Biagio

DELGADO

Rome10. Terme di Caracalla [first watercolor]

DELGADO

FOLIO.WEBLOG | GUIDELINES + DEADLINES

POST TITLE: ROMA10 SMDP | GRUPPO WHATEVER for example

• for group projects, posting here is REQUIRED. you may use a LINK to an individual blogs, but the information below must appear here on the main weblog.

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GROUP MEMBERS: dart kopec lang romito/fiocca sollohub speranza

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NAME: dart for example
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ASSIGNMENT: newark precedent 1 for example

the information listed above must be at the top of every post. you may redesign or reformat but the information must be clear to those who will be evaluating your work … you may also include a small signature image or motto above the group name.

GROUP.EVALUATIONS | DUE 2PM THU 02 SEP 10

PEER GROUP EVALUATIONS are an integral part of studio grading. excel templates have been emailed to you all. please fill out + return via email to james.dart@njt.edu. please name the file S10<LASTNAME>.xls (no spaces). on behalf of all of us faculty, we would like to thank you again for your participation in the sienastudio 2010, and especially, your good humor + good work over the course of the summer.  it has been a pleasure and, we hope, a good learning experience.

FOLIO.WEBLOG | DUE 2PM THU 02 SEP 10

FOLIOWEBLOG click for a list of assignment + content requirements

Whoever knows how to design a park well will have no difficulty in tracing the plan for the building of a city according to its given area and situation. There must be squares, crossroads, and streets. There must be regularity and fantasy, relationships and oppositions, and casual unexpected elements that vary the scene; great order in the details, confusion, uproar, and tumult in the whole. M.A. Laugier  Observations sur l’Architecture 1765.

Notations on architecture and the city have historically been rendered legible through publications and manifestoes. From Vitruvius to Le Corbusier to the present day architects have presented their impressions and design intentions in clear graphic and textual narratives. These works can provide models for a graphic-based rhetorical language. The architectural treatise constitutes a comprehensive means of communicating all aspects of architectural design, from precedent to projection, addressing the varying dimensions of the discipline. A tectonic appreciation of the city begins with creating a graphic-based methodology for reading and communicating architecture.

SIENA10 | Fonti di Pescaia. [Territory]

Gruppo CIRCOLO: DELGADO/ D’ELIA/ RAPCIEWICZ

Please click here for FINAL PRESENTATION

Initial Documentation:

Site Plan:

1226: Fish Supply to Siena

La Fonti di Pescaia:

Impression Board:

Figure Ground:

Three urban fabric typologies [medieval, 19C, early 20C]:

Wall:

Street Map:

Related Geometry:

Topography:

Through the Contradas:

Sectional cuts:

1 [roof garden]

2. [recreational park]

3 [community garden]

Spaces/ Uses:

Elevation Changes:

Micro/Macro Topography:

Procession to Time:

S10 ART SUPPLIES

buy them here buy there, it’s up to you. click here for the list S10 ART SUPPLIES.

note: the best place to buy art supplies in roma centro is Ditta G. Poggi  – Coloreria Articoli Belle Arti‎ on via Gesù, 74.

the workshop is the operative model for the sienastudio. among the workshop’s many challenges is communicating intent + documenting process … here is a brilliant example from NABA, a design school based in milano.  for a closer look, click naba-design…

be aware that you will be mounting an exhibition of your summer’s work in the loft at NJIT at the beginning of the fall semester.  much of the documentation will be video + image based. for other examples, see the critical links, especially peter lang’s crossXborderXprojeX + take note!

NEWARK10 Nolli Town | exquisite corpse REDUX | TUES 22 JUN 10

please REVISIT all NOLLI map sections per our discussion on thursday.  please REVISE all map sections + print out on 11×17 sheets.   [re] assemble the map on wall in one of the second floor studios for tuesday. make this a useful tool!

let us know if you have any questions by posting a comment here.

NEWARK10 Campus Project | MANIFESTO 18 JUN 10

post-review assignment please craft a 200-word MANIFESTO for each site under study based on the documentation from the mid-review, the mid-review discussion + your group’s subsequent de-briefing.  be sure to include [ or revise ] your group’s motto.  note that a manifesto is like a statement of intentions, but includes specific aims + outcomes. it is declarative.  it is a call to action.

please post as a COMMENT to this post by the midnight friday 18 Jun 10.

NEWARK10 ITINERARY 04 NYC | TUES 15 JUN 10

S10 NYC ITINERARY 2 looks at TYPOLOGIES in TRANS(lation) starting with the starn twins’ BIG BAMBU at the metropolitan museum of art (meet at the education entrance promptly at 11h00) and proceeding through Central Park to Bethesda Terrace by Calvert Vaux and then to the ongoing transformation of Lincoln Center by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

reminder assignment  S10 EWR HG PRECEDENT assignment 01 DUE 14JUN10 revised DUE 21JUN10.

reminder please bring your CONSTRUCTING LANDSCAPE analytiques with you on the NYC itinerary 2 field trip. we want to do a little review session with you.

S10 EWR NOLLI PINUP exquisite corpse | THU 17 JUN 10

in ADVANCE of the mid-review on thursday 17 Jun 10, please pin up all NOLLI map sections from each group in the STOREFRONT (please use north wall opposite the concave wall).  please tile all map sections to print out on 11×17 sheets at a COMMON SCALE.  assemble the map on wall in ADVANCE of the mid-review.

CAPOS: please get together to determine what the common scale should be.  be sure to use a scale that maximizes the wall space available, that is, floor to ceiling and/or side to side. please note that NORTH should be UP unless you all can convince us otherwise.

FOOT SOLDIERS: everyone participates/everyone helps.

let us know if you have any questions by posting a comment here.

NEWARK10 ITINERARY 03 | THU 10 JUNE 10

a reminder: we go to DIA:BEACON and STORM KING on thursday. we’ll meet at 10h30 at Dia:Beacon.  wear comfortable shoes, bring an umbrella + pack your sketchbooks.  see EWR ITINERARIES + ASSIGNMENTS for S10 EWR HG PRECEDENT assignment 02.

S10 EWR Denise Hoffman Brandt on MAPPING

we are very pleased to welcome Denise Hoffman Brandt to siena2010 at 12 noon tuesday 08 june 10 in weston lecture hall 2. she will show how mapping and representational strategies played into several projects.

Denise Hoffman Brandt is principal of Hoffman Brandt Landscape Architects and a professor of Landscape Architecture at the City College of New York School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture. Her work focuses on landscape design as a means for environmental sustainability. She has been involved in numerous public design projects including the landscape plan for the Queens Museum of Art and the master plan of the New York Hall of Science, which received a Design Excellence award from the Art Commission of the City of New York. Hoffman Brandt has previously worked as Senior Landscape Architect at Matthews Nielsen and as Project Landscape Architect at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates. She holds an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute and a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.

you have all been sent email ‘invitations’ to create your own wordpress blog. please do so by tuesday 08 jun 10. please don’t worry about designing your blog now – we’ll have a tutorial soon – but feel free to play around. in order to link your blog to the siena2010 blog, please send the url to me at james.dart@njit.edu. if you did not receive an invitation, please let me know ASAP.

S10 NYC ITINERARY 01 | TYPOLOGIES in TRANSIT(ion)

self-guided S10 NYC ITINERARY 2 return to the MORGAN LIBRARY in manhattan over this weekend/week to visit PALLADIO and HIS LEGACY. click on the image at left to access the morgan library web site.

S10 NYC ITINERARY 2 follows S10 NYC ITINERARY 1 by expanding the range of italian typologies in their anglo/american manifestations.  as we saw repeatedly on tuesday’s walk around manhattan, classical + renaissance models of urban spaces + buildings were repeatedly invoked by architects + planners in the 19th + early 20th centuries, even as those models were utterly transformed programmatically.

assignment see EWR ITINERARIES + ASSIGNMENTS page before you visit the morgan for the related assignment  S10 EWR HG PRECEDENT assignment 01 DUE 14JUN10 revised DUE 21JUN10.

self-guided check out the KEY to the CITY web site by clicking the logo.  visit the project’s kiosk in TIMES SQUARE.

assignment write a 200-word review of the project in a comment to this post> due 08 JUN 2010!

For centuries, the key to the city has been used to honor a city’s heroes and visiting dignitaries. Now, artist Paul Ramírez Jonas has created a Key to the City that is not only a symbolic award, but also a functional key—opening spaces across all five boroughs of New York City. This Key to the City is intended for everyday citizens, who will award one another the key for reasons large and small. Once in hand, the key launches a citywide exploration of back doors, front gates, community gardens, graveyards, and museums that suggests that the city is a series of spaces that are either locked or unlocked.

S10 EWR ITINERARY 01 | TUES 01 JUNE 10

a reminder: tuesday afternoon we travel to manhattan for URBAN SPACE 1 field trip.  we will depart NJIT promptly at 12 noon after morning mapping crits.  wear comfy shoes + pack your sketchbooks.

look for ITINERARY NYC01 soon.

crashlands

click crashlands to view sienastudio founder peter lang’s illustrated manifesto on cities + architecture in the third millenium.

castrum

below is the FIRST in a series of polemics, broadsides, manifestoes, musings, visions and other provocative pieces about the city that we will post from time to time and ask you to comment on from time to time…

CASTRUM (2009) a visionary novel about urban planning by 2A+P ARCHITECTURE and Angelo Grasso; see more of their work at 2ap.it.

In a cold, cold land…

The Mayor of the City decided to create a new settlement. He did not want to conceive just a city plan, but to reveal a new emotion, a new political vision. He loved to repeat a sentence “the city is too important to put it into the hands of the architects”.

Many meetings and workshops with citizens were organized to decide how to go forward with this new project. The Mayor invited a famous urban planner to the workshop, who showed pictures and drawings of many urban models. People were always happy seeing pictures of public spaces, squares, courtyards, gardens etc… otherwise they were just a bit afraid – fearful of those projects made by the very famous masters, drawn by urban planners as “heroes”.

But how to organize such a complex system? What form will the city be? This was the problem: can the desires of the community be shown black on white?

the City is too important to put into the hands of the architects…

click here for the classical definition of ‘castrum’ and note its many iterations in the morphology of the western city, including its circuitous linguistic lingering in san francisco’s castro district, now known primarily as the world’s first urban encampment for gay people, and in the surname of cuba’s ruling family.