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This booklet is the outcome of an exchange which both our schools, RISD in Providence, RI and DIA in Dessau had agreed to stage as a architectural as well as a cultural Crossover Project. It proved a fascinating experience to bring a imilar number students from Europe to the US and vice versa. Participants were to be exposed to a typical architectural project in the hosting country in addition to a series of accompanying lectures and outings. www.afg.hs-anhalt.de
This booklet is the outcome of an exchange which both our schools, RISD in Providence, RI and DIA in Dessau had agreed to stage as a architectural as well as a cultural Crossover Project. It proved a fascinating experience to bring a imilar number students from Europe to the US and vice versa. Participants were to be exposed to a typical architectural project in the hosting country in addition to a series of accompanying lectures and outings.
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CONTENT<br />
MAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />
X-<strong>CHANGE</strong> EUROPE-<strong>USA</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />
BERLIN • LEIPZIG • WITTENBERG • DESSAU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />
LETTERS OF INTENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />
STUDIO DESCRIPTION, RISD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />
PROJECT: GROPIUS GUEST HOUSE LINCOLN / MA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />
• Matthew E. Elson, US 38<br />
• Teresa H. Wan 40<br />
• Roselle S. Curwen 42<br />
• Jae Hun Choi 44<br />
• Chelsea D. Limbird 46<br />
PROJECT: A NEW ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN LIBRARY AT THE BAUHAUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48<br />
• Damir Vukovjak 52<br />
• Ryohei Tsutsui 60<br />
• Andrew D. Simes 70<br />
• Chelsea D. Limbird 76<br />
DRAWING WORKSHOP BY PROF. THOMAS LYON MILLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84<br />
RISD • PROVIDENCE • BOSTON • HARVARD • YALE • NEW YORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88<br />
PROJECT: A NEW STUDENT GRADUATE CENTER AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96<br />
• Stephanie Fähnrich 102<br />
• Thomas Ave 106<br />
• Erik Zein 110<br />
• Sabrina lo Cicero 114<br />
• Winnie Y.-P. Chan 120<br />
• Narcisa Hadzic 124<br />
LECTURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
4 I 5<br />
HARVARD<br />
BOSTON<br />
RISD - PROVIDENCE<br />
YALE - NEW HAVEN<br />
NEW YORK
BERLIN<br />
WITTENBERG<br />
DESSAU<br />
LEIPZIG
6 I 7
X-<strong>CHANGE</strong> EUROPE-<strong>USA</strong><br />
This booklet is the outcome of an exchange which both our schools, RISD in Providence, RI and DIA in Dessau<br />
had agreed to stage as a architectural as well as a cultural Crossover Project. It proved a fascinating experience<br />
to bring a similar number students from <strong>Europe</strong> to the US and vice versa. Participants were to be exposed<br />
to a typical architectural project in the hosting country in addition to a series of accompanying lectures and<br />
outings.<br />
The studio design projects focused around the work of Walter Gropius. In Germany it coincerned itself with the<br />
project for a library adjacent to the Bauhaus in Dessau to function as the university library for the facultied of<br />
architecture and Design on the campus next to the icon of architectural education of the 1920 ‚ies.<br />
The project task based in the States was to formulate an answer for a Graduate Center at Harvard University in<br />
Cambridge/Mass. on a site next to Halls of Residence, constructed by Walter Gropius in the early 1960 ‚ies<br />
In effect this experience turned out to be well organised and profitable for everybody exposing himself to it.<br />
Students and staff involved used the lectures, drawing experiences,outings and discussions amongst each<br />
other to produce some very beautiful projects. In order to provide you as a reader with the insight on what was<br />
achieved, both institutions have cooperated yet again to produce this booklet.<br />
We hope you have fun reading and studying it.<br />
Prof. Lynette Widder<br />
Head of Department<br />
Architecture School RISD<br />
Prof.Johannes Kister<br />
Dean Architecture School Anhalt University<br />
Prof. Gabriel Feld<br />
Project Conception<br />
Architecture School RISD<br />
Prof.Alfred Jacoby<br />
Director Dessau Institute of Architecture<br />
Anhalt University
8 I 9
10 I 11
LETTERS OF INTENT<br />
12 I 13
From:<br />
To:<br />
Date:<br />
Subject:<br />
Lynnette Widder<br />
gfeld@risd.edu<br />
Friday - October 12, 2007 10:48 PM<br />
spring studio possiblity<br />
Dear Gabriel<br />
I just had dinner in NY with Alfred Jacoby, the Director of the Neue Bauhausakademie in Dessau who I believe<br />
you met last spring when he visited our reviews (his daughter graduated from ID last spring). He and I have been<br />
trying to figure out a way to collaborate - wintersession was one - but we discussed something this evening that<br />
I think is more interesting, and, if you have not already set your sights on a springsemester studio topic, I would<br />
like to ask whether you might be interested in pursuing:<br />
the idea would be to take a similar topic and scale of project - we talked about the return of historicism in the<br />
city centers of Providence, Frankfurt and Berlin, for example - in Germany and the US Northeast (preferably<br />
Providence and a city not far from Dessau, Halle might also be a possiblity). Alfred Jacoby‘s students and a set of<br />
RISD studio students would begin working on the project in their home countries. Midway through the semester,<br />
the two groups would more or less cross paths midway above the Atlantic - the Germans would come to Providence<br />
for a week, and the Providence students would go to Dessau. Thereafter, they would return to their home<br />
institutions, but work on the projects in the remote location. The review, which could be here or there, would be<br />
two days, with the student projects also discussed comparatively.<br />
The Bauhausakademie is able to house students and feed them at almost no cost. We have a good relationship<br />
with swiss airlines for subsidized fares, and if I began now, I might be able to get a few thousand dollars through<br />
the German cultural consulate in Boston to help. We would need to get students here to agree to have a German<br />
student or two on their sofas; or else we could simply do the switch during spring break while people are away<br />
(I would propose spring break anyway for the RISd students to go to Dessau).<br />
If you are interested, let‘s talk about this next week, and I will give you all of Alfred Jacoby‘s contact information<br />
so that you and he can discuss the direction in which you might take this organization.<br />
Have a good weekend<br />
Lynnette
From: Lynnette Widder <br />
To:<br />
a001jacoby@aol.com<br />
Date: Di., 16. Okt. 2007, 17:40<br />
Subject: studio, information<br />
14 I 15<br />
Dear Alfred Jacoby,<br />
Welcome back, should I say? I enjoyed our meeting too, and appreciated your tolerance for a not terribly well<br />
behaved seven year old at the table.<br />
Gabriel Feld is very enthusiastic about the studio idea. I hope that you can work together quickly so that we can<br />
locate some funding for the travel, which seems to me an integral part of the studio proposal. Please let me<br />
know.<br />
I also appreciate your other notes, and am hopeful that Jovan will be able to come in the spring. It would be a<br />
pleasure if your colleague could accompany you.<br />
we would have to resolve the visa issues, but that is not impossible!<br />
Best regards,<br />
Lynnette<br />
------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
I am back in Germany now and would like to say thank you very much for the nice meeting we had in New York<br />
and all the effort you have made since then.<br />
I received Gabriel Feld‘s very interesting note and will think about it swiftly. I have a feeling that the exhibition<br />
New York/Berlin might be something to latch this onto as a motivator-using Gabriel‘s idea of build- repeat-copy<br />
etc.<br />
Concerning New York, this pattern does not apply so much for Manhattan, although Berlin has parts based on<br />
a Baroque grid) but developments like I just saw in Red Hook are something that has parallels in <strong>Europe</strong>- Also,<br />
Red Hook represent a sort of umbilical cord between both continents, as the big ships arriving from the Old<br />
World were unloaded and repaired there.<br />
Thank you also for mentioning the firms in RH . We were able to see Cemre ?urusoy at MADE out there.<br />
I have written to Jovan Ivanovski‘s University in Macedonia (see attachement) and will get back to you about him.<br />
Hopefully by next Monday. (Whatever the outcome of this will be).<br />
In addition, in NY we spoke about Jo Krausse, who is our Prof. for Theory of design. He sent me this note for a<br />
conference in Berlin. It has him on it too. Perhaps when the parallel studio takes place and we will travel to the<br />
US, I would take him along and he could give a lecture at RISD .<br />
All the best<br />
yours<br />
Alfred Jacoby
From:<br />
To:<br />
Date:<br />
Subject:<br />
<br />
, <br />
Friday - October 19, 2007 7:38 AM<br />
Re: studio, information<br />
Dear Lynette Widder,<br />
thank you for your speedy response and the suggestions by Gabriel Feld.<br />
I have researched into the idea of a joint studio and written to Gabriel. As I am not 100% sure of his correct mail<br />
address please forward the enclosed letter of mine to him.<br />
Your students would be travelling while it is still the intermission period (Semesterferien from 1st Feb till 1st<br />
April) in our school which starts just one week later. However, I think this is manageable.<br />
As for accomodation, it seems it will be free of charge for both RISD students and staff travelling and the school<br />
will give me a small sum for travel expenses for the RISD group.(approx. 500.-€) This will pay for some Bahntickets<br />
and/or Museum entrance fees. (Visit to Berlin-Gropiusarchiv) If we can fix things quickly, I can order our<br />
school bus for excursions.<br />
As for our group to come to RISD, we could either do this after the begining of April (which might be easier) and<br />
then work our solutions until July 15th ( end of semester) or start together with RISD in Feb. and present the<br />
first leg together in Dessau in March.<br />
By the way, there is a conference New York/Berlin in the Kulturforum (Schwangere Auster by Hugh Stubbins)<br />
next week.<br />
Best regards<br />
Alfred Jacoby
To:<br />
Prof. Gabriel Feld<br />
Rhode Island School of Design<br />
Department of Architecture<br />
2,College Street<br />
Providence ,RI<br />
16 I 17<br />
Dear Gabriel,<br />
thank you very much for your inspiring letter. I loved that story of the Italian Immigrants.<br />
Taking it as a point of departure, I have come up with the following thought:<br />
Our both locations, the Bauhaus and RISD with its Museum, have something unique.<br />
They both are centers for the Arts as well as schools of Design and Architecture.<br />
I do not know the exact story of how RISD turned towards Modernism, but in our case it is obvious.<br />
For students to do some project, I therefore see the following possibility:<br />
We have outstanding examples of early Modern Design in Dessau with the Masterhouses by Gropius.<br />
They were built as Double (joint) Villas for Bauhaus teachers, (Klee, Feininger, etc.) They have all been restored<br />
to their original form.<br />
In a strange parallel way, this fits the first part of your immigrant story.<br />
We all know how Gropius, Albers, Mies and others went to the US and influenced teaching at Architecture and<br />
Design schools. (IIT Chicago, Black Mountain College, Harvard GSD). They therefore exported this idea of the<br />
original type of architecture to the US. The first Building to show these new tendencies was the Moma. (Durell<br />
Stone 1929-31).<br />
Now, strangely, the same has happened: One of the houses was half destroyed during the war, so only 50%<br />
remains and there is a large empty lot next to it. It houses the Kurt Weill Centre of Music, while the other two<br />
double houses are (a) a Museum of Modern Art and an (b) an exhibition space. (see Meisterhäuser Dessau).<br />
From over here, I therefore suggest to ask students to build something onto or next to the remaining Masterhouse<br />
which serves the Kurt Weill Center for Music (an auditorium plus some classrooms for teaching Music).I<br />
think this is an exercise, which is manageable in the given timespan (March 24th to May 20th or so).<br />
For the preceeding period, I suppose you could suggest a topic in the US that could in idea match that second<br />
German one. This way one would do two comparative studies on two terrains with a common ground.<br />
What I therefore would ask of you would be to propose a project similar in size, which could be done by us until<br />
the 24th March. We could then have a common final presentation in Dessau for this.<br />
As for the logistics:<br />
a) there are no direct flights Boston/Berlin. However, Continental and Delta offer a direct service from<br />
New York. Trains Berlin/Dessau go at hourly intervals and arrive directly to the Bauhaus<br />
b) we can offer you accommodation in our Student Guest House for the entire period.<br />
I have to check if this is free of charge. Otherwise charges are minimal. We have a Professor’s<br />
Guest House with a furnished apartment for teachers , again for the entire period. (free of charge).<br />
c) Meals are offered in the Bauhaus c. Club and the Bauhaus Mensa.<br />
d) We will provide a program over the 10 or so days you will be there, which will give an in-depth introduction<br />
to the topic. I would be available for that period as well as other teachers to complete this program.<br />
Waiting to hear from you I remain,<br />
With best regards<br />
Prof. Alfred Jacoby<br />
Director dia
From:<br />
To:<br />
Date:<br />
Subject:<br />
Lynnette Widder<br />
gfeld@risd.edu<br />
Monday - October 29, 2007 9:13 AM<br />
Fwd: AW: Re: Jovan<br />
Hi Gabriel,<br />
I wondered, based on Alfred‘s note here, whether you had gotten around to reviewing his suggestions about the<br />
spring studio? If so, could you please send him a note? I would love to have a project set up so that I can approach<br />
the IKEA foundation (which supported my Swiss trip) about funding the travel to Germany; any thoughts<br />
you have about putting the German students up in PRov would be really helpful, too.<br />
congratulations, incidentally, but for me, it was one of the most boring world series ever. I miss the oldschool<br />
National League running and fielding game.<br />
Bye for now<br />
Lynnette
From:<br />
To:<br />
Date:<br />
Subject:<br />
<br />
„Gabriel Feld“ , „Linette Widder“ <br />
Sunday - November 25, 2007 3:02 PM<br />
AW: parallel studios<br />
18 I 19<br />
Dear Gabriel,<br />
This time I am sorry for not having replied within a reasonable time.<br />
I have however been active on preparing the ground for your visit at the end of March.<br />
The Department and the University are jointly ready to offer you accomodation and use of all facilities for you<br />
as well as all of your students for the entire visit here, if you so wish Dessau students would join both projects<br />
in the beginning of April08 when we can travel to RISD or Boston( see below) and we would conclude it in mid-<br />
July 08.<br />
This means we could at least be present at one crit for the RISD student‘s first project in the US which you could<br />
present either in Providence in April or you could do the crit in Dessau.<br />
As for content I have had the following trought:<br />
The controversy of translation of Freud‘s writings is well documented in Peter Gays Biography and I always<br />
found it to be relevant to architectural appraisal as well.<br />
I therefore am on board with you on that Architecturally, this idea of „translation“ (as opposed to the idea of<br />
„transformation“) can be looked at- as you suggested- as two answers to two similar building tasks but involving<br />
two very different contexts. (e.g. Revitalisation of two ex-industrial sites).<br />
They could also be interpreted to mean the different approach to a similar idea or ideology.<br />
This was my intention behind my suggestion to ask students to formulate an additin to one of the missing halves<br />
of one of the Gropius Masterhouses in Dessau as a project.<br />
(The enlargement of the Kurt Weill Institute of Music as a contemporary confrontation with the ideas and architectural<br />
formulations of the Bauhaus)Your first (US) project would be formulated by you at RISD and involve<br />
the „translation“ of an „ideological“ task similar in size.<br />
A different choice from this end (Germany) would be to take a Berlin site.<br />
I am thinking of the area around the Tacheles Site on Oranienburger Strasse and Friedrichstrasse. (Look up in<br />
Google Earth) up to the Hackesche Hoefe on Rosenthaler Strasse. There are many suitable sites to be developed<br />
there or even the Tacheles site itself is a fabulous site to consider.<br />
It is a dense inner city site containing a big partly demolished artist house (The Tacheles) which today is used<br />
as a culktural center. It has around it a fairly large empty site between Friedrichstrasse and Oranienburger<br />
Strasse.<br />
As you spoke of similar sizes of problems, adopting such a site in Berlin could mean going to a similar US city,<br />
say Boston. (We would fly to BOS on our way to RISD anyway).<br />
To conclude our discussion, my institute(DIA) is inviting you to come here in order to fix our plans together- either<br />
before Xmas (we break up here on 21st Dec) or in early to mid Jan 08.<br />
We still have semester and we could introduce you and our joint task to our students in Dessau Alternatively-<br />
I am ready to come and see you in RISD.<br />
Tell me what you make of these suggestions<br />
Yours<br />
Alfred.
From: Gabriel Feld<br />
To:<br />
Jacoby Mob, Linette Widder<br />
Date: 29. Okt. 2007 18:47<br />
Subject: parallel studios<br />
Dear Alfred,<br />
So, what do we do?<br />
I‘d like to think that one of the morals of the little story about the churches is that there are great opportunities<br />
for architecture in the migration of ideas, from one place to another, from one time to another, from one culture<br />
to another (when thinking of this I always go back to a short story by Borges--“Pierre Menard, author of Don<br />
Quixote“--that test this idea to its limit.)<br />
So, I‘d propose that we do something in which our respective students are confronted with two problems, first<br />
one in their place of origin then a second one in a different, foreign context; the idea is that rather than taking<br />
the two problems independently, they look at the second project as a process of translation from the first, the<br />
one in their „native language.“<br />
I‘ve always been fascinated with these questions of translation. For example, in the eighties here there was a<br />
whole debate here about the translations of Freud and I remember Bruno Bettelheim using the simple contrast<br />
between the words Wasserstoff and Hydrogen to show the differences between what he saw as a more humanist<br />
bent in the German language against a more technocratic tone in English.<br />
I‘d suggest that we pick similar (at least in scale and nature) loaded urban contexts, so the students at RISD<br />
begin with one in the US, do a project for about a month, then visit the second site in Germany (with some ideas<br />
from their US project already in mind) and then they work on the German project for the remaining two months<br />
or so. And, of course, your group would do the other way around. It would be very important that the two circumstances<br />
have some common characteristics, so there is a sense of continuity from one project to the other.<br />
I also thought about doing something around the figure of Walter Gropius since he divided his professional career<br />
between our two places, but I haven‘t thought about a specific problem (in any case, when your group comes<br />
here we can visit Gropius‘s house in Lincoln, Mass., a very nice little project.)<br />
All I can think for now.<br />
With great excitement and best regards,<br />
Gabriel
To:<br />
Prof. Gabriel Feld<br />
Rhode Island School of Design<br />
Department of Architecture<br />
2,College Street<br />
Providence ,RI<br />
20 I 21<br />
Dear Gabriel,<br />
Thanks for your swift reply.<br />
Our School and I personally find the prospect of a joint studio with RISD and with you a very exciting task and we<br />
will do our best, to make it a positive experience for all.<br />
You made two very interesting suggestions, which we should consider in detail:<br />
2 smaller Projects in Dessau and Lincoln /Mass.<br />
I think, the Gropius House at Lincoln could serve as a Czerny Etude for the US team, as I think it is certainly<br />
do-able within the first 4 weeks before you travel. Then the Germany visit would have a more demanding program.<br />
I would then organise lectures and seminars on the Bauhaus and would suggest a visit to Berlin to the Bauhaus<br />
Archives, Berlin Britz (Bruno Taut), Potsdam(Einstein Pavillion) as well as (maybe) the Weissenhof Siedlung in<br />
Stuttgart - to demonstrate that there were other movements in parallel with the Bauhaus at the time. Adopting<br />
smaller projects allows for a more extended travel visit.<br />
For the US Team this could be basis anyway. I would see this visit to the Bauhaus as a research into the physical<br />
as well as the theoretical fabric of the location.<br />
For us, this version would have the advantage to start with you in late March ‘08 and then do both projects<br />
throughout the semester as we only start on April 2nd.<br />
2 larger projects in Boston and Dessau<br />
I liked the Harvard Grad Law School idea with the Bob Stern poject.<br />
In parallel I would suggest a project that has been bugging us here for many years:<br />
We badly need an Architecture/Design/Art History Library on our campus in Dessau, which also houses the<br />
Bauhaus Archives.(for our campus see www.dia-architecture.de).<br />
There have been 2 competitions (to no avail) for it, consequently there are realistic programs available for the<br />
task.<br />
There are several empty sites around the Bauhaus Building here, which would fit that.<br />
If you look on Google Earth you will notice it.<br />
1 Smaller Project and 1 Larger Project in Mixed Locations<br />
I would like to suggest a third variation of the theme of the Czerny Etudes, which takes care of the unsymmetrical<br />
time allotted for each of the tasks. (4weeks/8 weeks).It assumes that the smaller task is done before<br />
travelling abroad for each team. In this way, the smaller task will sharpen the focus on the idea of “translation”<br />
when returning home and sitting down to tackle the larger one :
Etude Performance<br />
1 Small Project ( 4 weeks) plus 1 Large Project (8 weeks)<br />
US Team (RISD)<br />
Visitor Center Lincoln/Mass Dessau Library at the Bauhaus<br />
German Team (DIA)<br />
1 Small Project (4 weeks) plus 1 Large Project<br />
Masterhouse Dessau Harvard Law School /Boston<br />
Hoping to hear from you soon I remain,<br />
Yours<br />
Prof. Alfred Jacoby<br />
Director dia<br />
Dessau 27th Nov.2007
From:<br />
To:<br />
Date:<br />
Gabriel Feld<br />
a001jacoby@aol.com<br />
12/06/07 1:52 PM<br />
22 I 23<br />
Dear Alfred,<br />
Thank you for your letter. I really like the “1 Smaller Project and 1 Larger Project in Mixed Locations” alternative.<br />
So, it’s a deal, we’ll work on the Gropius House in Lincoln for the first four weeks of the term and the remaining<br />
eight (after the visit) on the Dessau Library at the Bauhaus. You’ll work on the Dessau Masterhouse and the<br />
project next to Gropius Graduate Center at Harvard.<br />
I’m attaching a few images of the Gropius House in Lincoln but I’m confident that you know it.<br />
I’m also attaching an image of the Graduate Center so you can get a sense of the project. The site of Stern’s project<br />
for the Law School is between the Graduate Center and Mass Avenue to the West (at the top of the image.)<br />
The parking garage and brick apartment building were demolished a couple of month ago and the three wood<br />
houses were moved two blocks to the north in the summer. Right now the site is a hole and they are pouring<br />
foundations; the construction is going very fast so I wouldn’t be surprised if there is structure already up at the<br />
time of your visit. The whole area (Harvard’s north campus) is going through major transformation, with a number<br />
of large infill projects (a good expansion to Sert’s Science Center and an also very good lab building by Moneo,<br />
others rather conventional but fantastic in the way they find space within an already developed context.)<br />
All very exciting. Really looking forward.<br />
With best regards,<br />
Gabriel<br />
******************************<br />
Gabriel C. Feld, AIA<br />
Professor, Department of Architecture<br />
Rhode Island School of Design<br />
Two College Street<br />
Providence, RI 02903
DAAD<br />
Ms. Habbich<br />
Kennedyallee 53<br />
53134 Bonn GERMANY<br />
APPLICATION FOR SUPPORT OF A BILATERAL DESIGN STUDIO COURSE BETWEEN<br />
THE RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN AND THE ANHALT UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE<br />
“Bauhaus and Cultural Exchange -Translations in Design“<br />
Dear Ms. Habbich,<br />
This exchange represents a powerful new model of academic collaboration between schools in two countries<br />
whose pre- and post-World War II architectural history are intimately intertwined. The architects who formed<br />
the image of Modern architecture in <strong>Europe</strong> at the Bauhaus - Gropius, Mies, Breuer, to name a few of the most<br />
famous protagonists - were the same architects who, in the post-war period, lent the High Modernism with<br />
which the United States represented its newly established international presence its image and philosophical<br />
agenda. The curriculum allows for reflection upon the meaning of the Modern in these two historical and<br />
cultural moments, divided from each other by the experience of the war, and thus asks students to reconsider<br />
in the context of their own creative work this heritage. In structural terms, the bilateral nature of the design<br />
process goes well beyond a traditional workshop or exchange by exposing students a whole spectrum of new<br />
experiences and information while maintaining for them the context of their home institution, in which they are<br />
best equipped to work productively and effectively. It is a model that I would wish to see repeated and refined in<br />
the future.<br />
Yours,<br />
Lynnette Widder<br />
Head<br />
Department of Architecture<br />
Rhode Island School of Design<br />
Providence, 6.December.2007
From: Lynnette Widder <br />
To:<br />
a001jacoby@aol.com; Gabriel Feld <br />
Date: Fr., 14. Dez. 2007, 14:47<br />
Subject: Fwd: DAAD Group Study Visit<br />
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Wonderful news from snowy Providence! Thank you for all your efforts,<br />
Alfred.<br />
Best,<br />
Lynnette<br />
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From: Myoung-Shin Kim <br />
To:<br />
lwidder@risd.edu<br />
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:40:14 -0500<br />
Subject: DAAD Group Study Visit<br />
Dear Professor Widder,<br />
We are happy to inform you that your application for a Group Study Visit for a group of University of Rhode Island<br />
School of Design students to Germany in March 2008 has been approved.<br />
Based on the information provided in your application, DAAD will be able to pay a subsidy of up to €3,465 towards<br />
room and board for a group of up to 10 students and 1 faculty member for a period of 9 days (travel days<br />
included). Should fewer students choose to participate in the program, we ask that you notify us immediately in<br />
order for funds to be adjusted accordingly.<br />
Please find the attached signature sheet which needs to be signed by each participant. Once the sheet has been<br />
completed, please fax or mail it back to us at your earliest convenience. After we have received the completed<br />
signature sheet, we will prepare your contract. Funds will be allocated to you six weeks before the planned date<br />
of departure to Germany.<br />
Please feel free to contact us if you have any additional questions.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Myoung-Shin Kim<br />
Program Officer<br />
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German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)<br />
New York Office<br />
871 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017<br />
Tel: 212-758-3223 Fax: 212-755-5780<br />
Email: kim@daad.org<br />
Website: http://www.daad.org
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Friday - December 14, 2007 4:57 PM<br />
Re: DAAD Group Study Visit<br />
Dear Lynette,<br />
I am so happy that we got this application through. I shall find out what we have to produce as far as bills etc is<br />
concerned.<br />
I am now looking forward to a great project.<br />
I shall talk about details here now swiftly and will get back to you.<br />
Please give Gabriel my my best regards.<br />
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year I remain,<br />
Yours<br />
Alfred
To:<br />
Prof. Gabriel Feld<br />
Rhode Island School of Design<br />
Department of Architecture<br />
2,College Street<br />
Providence ,RI<br />
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Dear Gabriel,<br />
thank you very much for your nice postcard. I enjoyed the image and the text.<br />
As your visit with students is approaching, I would like to ask you for some detail of your envisaged program in<br />
Berlin and Dessau. We are at your disposal as of the 25th March (one day after Easter) and could join you that<br />
day in Berlin. (if wanted).- Otherwise we would meet you all in the evening in Dessau.<br />
My overall program suggestion would be as follows:<br />
25th March ‘08<br />
--19.00 p.m. Arrival in Dessau / settling in to Student Dorms Hardenbergstrasse.<br />
--20.00 p.m. Joint Dinner at Kornhaus Restaurant (individual payment)<br />
26th March ‘08<br />
-- 9.00 -10.00 a.m. Breakfast at Bauhaus Bistro (individual payment)<br />
--10.00-12.30 p.m. Site visit and Programming for the library project plus visit of the Bauhaus Building.<br />
--12.30-14.00 p.m. Lunchbreak (individual payment)<br />
--14.00-17.00 p.m. Visit Masterhouses, Siedlung Törten (Gropius) and<br />
the Housing project by Hannes Meyer.<br />
--18.00 p.m. Seminar and Discussion “Architectural Exchange <strong>Europe</strong> / <strong>USA</strong>”<br />
(Prof. Alfred Jacoby DIA / Prof. Gabriel Feld RISD)<br />
27th March ‘08<br />
--9.00-10.00 a.m. Breakfast at Bauhaus Bistro (individual payment)<br />
--10.00-12.30 p.m. Introduction to Charette “ Modern Life in Dessau”<br />
Prof. Gabriel Feld RISD<br />
Prof. Gunnar Hartmann DIA<br />
Prof. Alfred Jacoby DIA<br />
Prof. Johannes Kister DIA<br />
The project will imagine one of the houses built post-war in between the existing<br />
Masterhouses to be at the students disposal. We would expect them to prepare a<br />
short design for a replacement.<br />
--12.30-14.00 p.m. Lunchbreak (individual payment)<br />
--14.00-18.00 p.m. Studio with students from RISD and Dessau / Charette<br />
--18.00 p.m. Seminar and Discussion “Germany as Context” (Prof. Gunnar Hartmann, DIA)<br />
28th March ‘08<br />
--9.00-10.00 a.m. Breakfast at Bauhaus Bistro (individual payment)<br />
--10.00-12.30 p.m. Review Charette Part I Prof. Gabriel Feld RISD<br />
Prof. Daniel Dendra DIA<br />
Prof. Gunnar Hartmann DIA<br />
Prof. Alfred Jacoby DIA<br />
Prof. Johannes Kister DIA
--12.30-14.00 p.m. Lunchbreak (individual payment)<br />
--14.00-18.00 p.m. Review Charette Part II Prof. Gabriel Feld RISD<br />
Prof. Daniel Dendra DIA<br />
Prof. Gunnar Hartmann DIA<br />
Prof. Alfred Jacoby DIA<br />
Prof. Johannes Kister DIA<br />
--19.00 p.m. Departure Party at Bauhaus Bistro<br />
29th March ‘08<br />
--8.00–9.00 a.m. Breakfast at Bauhaus Bistro (individual payment)<br />
--9.00 a.m. Departure RISD students to Tegel Airport<br />
I hope, this program makes sense to you as well. Of course, you are more than welcome to share your thoughts<br />
on that with me.<br />
Looking forward to your visit, I remain<br />
Yours<br />
Alfred
From: Gabriel Feld <br />
To:<br />
a001jacoby@aol.com; Lynnette Widder <br />
Cc:<br />
P.Merkel@afg.hs-anhalt.de<br />
Date: Fr., 7. Mrz. 2008, 18:48<br />
Subject: Fwd: your visit to Dessau, reply<br />
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Dear Alfred,<br />
Thank you very, very much, the program is simply terrific!<br />
I think that our work on the Gropius House is going very well, more of a theoretical project of representation,<br />
drawings, models and some other constructions (I‘m aiming even for some perfomance but not sure if it will<br />
work.) We will have the review of that work in Providence on March 20 but would be great, if possible, to bring<br />
some documentation to Dessau and have a second review with you (including, of course Daniel, Gunnar, Johannes,<br />
Patricia, hoever can make it,) I would be very interested in your reaction. A couple ours should be plenty<br />
for that.<br />
All I can think for now. Again, thank you very much,<br />
Look forward with great excitement,<br />
Gabriel
From: „Gabriel Feld“ <br />
To:<br />
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Cc:<br />
“Kristen Oehlrich“ , „Lynnette Widder“ <br />
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:54:57<br />
Subject: Re: DIA US visit, tentative schedule<br />
Dear Alfred, Johannes and Cornelia,<br />
Find below my first shot and a schedule for your visit:<br />
Visit of the DIA Group<br />
Tentative Schedule (Apr/07/08)<br />
Saturday, April 26<br />
-- Arrival to Providence<br />
-- Group dinner in Providence<br />
Sunday, April 27<br />
-- Breakfast at “Met” (RISD Cafeteria)<br />
-- Tour of Providence and RISD campus<br />
-- Group dinner at “Evelyn’s Drive-In” in Tiverton, RI (seafood)<br />
Monday, April 28<br />
-- Visit to Boston and Cambridge<br />
-- Tour of Beacon Hill and Back Bay<br />
-- Tour of the Harvard Yard and project site adjacent to Gropius’s Graduate Center<br />
-- Tour of Harvard and MIT campuses including Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center, Aalto’s Baker House,<br />
Saarinen’s MIT Chapel and Kresge Auditorium<br />
-- Group dinner at “Bartley’s” in Cambridge, MA (hamburgers)<br />
Tuesday, April 29<br />
-- Studio day, visit to lectures and reviews<br />
-- School-wide lunch lecture: Prof. Johannes Kister<br />
-- Afternoon drawing workshop with Prof. Tom Mills<br />
-- School-wide evening lecture: Prof. Alice Friedman (Wellesley College)<br />
-- Dinner for guest lecturer and RISD/DIA faculty (students on their own)<br />
Wednesday, April 30<br />
-- Visit to New Haven<br />
-- Tour of the Yale campus including Kahn’s Art Gallery and British Art Center, Rudolph’s Art &<br />
Architecture Building and Bunshaft’s Beinecke Library<br />
Thursday, May 1<br />
-- Studio day, visit to lectures and reviews<br />
-- Morning lecture by Prof. Lynnette Widder: “The Proxy War: The Bauhaus Debate of 1953” and introduction to<br />
the RISD architecture program.<br />
-- School-wide lunch lecture: Prof. Alfred Jacoby<br />
-- Group dinner at “Wes’ Rib House” (southern barbecue)<br />
Friday, May 2<br />
-- Free day<br />
Saturday, May 3<br />
-- Departure from Providence
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STUDIO DESCRIPTION<br />
Department of Architecture Spring 2008<br />
Rhode Island School of Design<br />
ARCH 21ST Advanced Studio<br />
THE BAUHAUS REVISITED<br />
Instructor: Gabriel Feld<br />
STUDIO DESCRIPTION<br />
The Bauhaus and its founding director, Walter Gropius, have a central place in the history of modern architecture.<br />
This studio will attempt to look again at their legacy not as a historical exercise but as a way to mine the<br />
rich interplay of artistic and cultural practices of the Bauhaus experience searching inspiration and a point of<br />
departure for our own creativity. More broadly, it will revisit the avant-gardes of the early twentieth century--with<br />
their experimental and ludic attitudes--to construct design exercises addressing contemporary problems and<br />
sensibilities.<br />
Our studio at RISD will run in parallel with a studio at DIA (Dessau Institute of Architecture) in Germany. Each<br />
school will begin by looking at a small local building of Bauhaus heritage to then take on a larger project on<br />
the other side of the Atlantic. In our case we will spend the first four weeks of the course exploring and experimenting<br />
with the Gropius House in Lincoln, Massachusetts; then, for the reminder of the term we will work<br />
on the project of a new library for the Bauhaus in Dessau. Throughout the course assignments will focus on<br />
the notions of translation and representation in many of their potential meanings as a way to unlock (hopefully)<br />
unexpected opportunities for contemporary architecture.<br />
Bauhaus Building. Dessau, Germany. Walter Gropius, 1925 (photograph, January 2008.)
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PROJECT: GROPIUS GUEST HOUSE LINCOLN / MA<br />
The Bauhaus Revisited, page 2 Spring 2008<br />
TENTATIVE STUDIO SCHEDULE<br />
Thu. Feb. 21 Course introduction 1<br />
First project: The Gropius Variations<br />
Sat. Feb. 23 Variation #1: In “The Flesh” 2<br />
Field trip to the Gropius House (68 Backer Bridge Road - Lincoln, MA)<br />
Tue. Feb. 26 3<br />
Thu. Feb. 28 Variation #2: In Two Dimensions<br />
Tue. Mar. 4 4<br />
Thu. Mar. 6 Variation #3: In Three Dimensions<br />
Tue. Mar. 11 5<br />
Thu. Mar. 13 Variation #4: In Light, Movement and Performance<br />
Tue. Mar. 18 6<br />
Thu. Mar. 20 Final review of the first project<br />
Mar. 22 to 30<br />
Trip to Berlin and Dessau (spring recess)<br />
Tue. Apr. 1 Second Project: A New Library for the Bauhaus in Dessau 7<br />
Thu. Apr. 3<br />
Tue. Apr. 8 8<br />
Thu. Apr. 10<br />
Tue. Apr. 14 9<br />
Thu. Apr. 16<br />
Tue. Apr. 22 10<br />
Thu. Apr. 24<br />
Tue. Apr. 29 Visit of DIA students and faculty (potential fieldtrips and parties) 11<br />
Thu. May 1 Drawing workshop with Prof. Tom Mills<br />
Tue. May 6<br />
Thu. Apr. 8<br />
Tue. May 13 12<br />
Thu. Apr. 15<br />
May 20 to 23<br />
Final reviews
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ARCH 21ST Advanced Studio Spring 2008<br />
THE BAUHAUS REVISITED<br />
Instructor: Gabriel Feld<br />
FIRST PROJECT: THE GROPIUS VARIATIONS<br />
“I just knew how to make a few variations in exactly the same way as Bach wrote variations on certain themes.”<br />
Jean Prouvé (from the movie “La Maison de Jean Prouvé” by Stan Neumann, 2004)<br />
This first project will take the Gropius House in Lincoln, Mass. as the subject of careful study and as a point of<br />
departure for visual, design and architectural experimentations. This work will take its clues and ideas from the<br />
teachings of the Bauhaus, the work of its teachers and students and, more broadly, the work and ideas of the<br />
early twentieth century avant-garde.<br />
These exercises will borrow from music the notion of variation (as in “Variations on a Theme of Paganini”) with<br />
the Gropius House as the “original theme” and our work as interpretations, transformations and inventions. At<br />
the risk of stretching our musical analogies, these exercises will be introduced as if they were voices in a fugue,<br />
where successive voices remain in play and add to the density of the experience. Each week we will begin a new<br />
drawing, model or construction and we will continue to work on it until the final review of this project.<br />
Gropius House. Lincoln, Mass. Walter Gropius, 1937.
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The Gropius Variations, page 2 Spring 2008<br />
Variation #0: In Plans, Sections and Elevations (begins Thursday, February 21)<br />
We will begin by looking at the Gropius House using the mechanisms of orthographic projections. Each student<br />
will start with one projection--a plan, a section or an elevation--and progressively develop a composite drawing<br />
including diverse (many) projections. We will use a large scale--1/2”=1’-0”--drawing free hand with particular<br />
attention to the syntax and structure of both the drawing and the building.<br />
Variation #1: In “The Flesh” (Field trip - Tentative date: Saturday, February 23)<br />
We will visit the house and take this opportunity for increasing our understanding of the project through sketching,<br />
measuring, photographing, etc. This visit should also provide us materials for future work.<br />
Variation #2: In Two Dimensions (begins Thursday, February 28)<br />
For this variation each student will look closely at the work of an individual teacher, artist or designer associated<br />
with the Bauhaus, searching for clues and ideas for representation, interpretation and invention. The work will<br />
develop in a large sheet of paper employing diverse techniques--line drawing, color, photography, collage, etc.-<br />
-and a variety of materials.<br />
Variation #3: In Three Dimensions (begins Thursday, March 6)<br />
For this variation each student will work with a specific material--those used in the Bauhaus workshops, the<br />
early twentieth century avant-garde or contemporary/common ones--and devise particular forms of assembly<br />
to develop a tree-dimensional construction originating in the previous variation.<br />
Variation #4: In Light, Movement and Performance (begins Thursday, March 13)<br />
Finally we will look at the artistic experimental tradition dealing with light, movement and performance (from<br />
the visual arts, literature, dance, music, etc. (from the light machines of Moholy-Nagy and the ballets of Oskar<br />
Schlemmer to Calder’s Circus, the Dada poetry of Hugo Ball and the early films of Hans Richter and Rene Clair)<br />
to bring our constructions (or elements of them) in narrative action.<br />
The final review for this project will be Thursday, March 20. There will second presentation and review of the<br />
work in Dessau during the week of March 24.<br />
READINGS AND WRITING<br />
Throughout the course we will read and discuss a number of readings, study the work of artist,<br />
designers, writers, etc.<br />
In the course of working on the first project there will be two assignments:<br />
-- Each student will “interview” one artist or designer (more or less) connected with the Bauhaus.<br />
-- As a group we will put together a lecture about the history, teachings and work of the Bauhaus.<br />
After the spring break, as background for the project of a library we will read Alberto Manguel’s “A History of<br />
Reading” (Viking, 1996.) For the first project we will read and discuss the chapter titled “The Translator as Reader”<br />
(pp. 260-277) looking at the process of translation as a form of creative activity.
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Matthew E. Elson, US<br />
graduate, second year
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Teresa H. Wan, Taiwan/Hong Kong, China<br />
senior (undergraduate, fourth year)
Roselle S. Curwen, US<br />
graduate, second year
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Jae Hun Choi, South Korea<br />
graduate, second year
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Chelsea D. Limbird, US<br />
graduate, second year
PROJECT: A NEW ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN LIBRARY AT THE BAUHAUS<br />
ARCH 21ST Advanced Studio Spring 2008<br />
THE BAUHAUS REVISITED<br />
Instructor: Gabriel Feld<br />
SECOND PROJECT: THE DESSAU CONVERSATIONS<br />
“The book will kill the building”<br />
Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831<br />
During the last few years there have been several proposals for the construction of a 10,000 sq. ft. library to<br />
service the needs of both the Bauhaus Foundation and the neighboring Anhalt University in Dessau, Germany.<br />
The second project of our studio will take this program as a way to focus design explorations in close proximity<br />
to the seminal building of the Bauhaus. The work will attempt to develop “foundational” strategies for the various<br />
aspects of the project through a series of “conversations.” While each student will develop his/her own<br />
questions to advance these conversations, I propose that we all begin with the rather humorous but puzzling<br />
question we heard in Dessau:<br />
“Where is the Bauhaus?”<br />
Map of Dessau from a prospectus issued by the Dessau tourist office. Joost Schmidt, around 1930.
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The Dessau Conversations, page 2 Spring 2008<br />
Where is the Bauhaus? This question may be less innocent that it seems. Of course, the Bauhaus “is there”.<br />
But what does “there” mean? Today the Bauhaus is surrounded by a variety of buildings built at profoundly different<br />
times (the Third Reich, the German Democratic Republic, recent German reunification;) definitely a very<br />
different context from the open field in which the building was originally built. Is the building best described as<br />
“fronting” Gropius Allee? Or as “terminating” the street that starts at the train station? Or in what other ways?<br />
How do we understand today the relation between the Gropius building and its territory? How can this understanding<br />
help us establish directions for a project?<br />
To address these questions we can employ the techniques that we develop in the earlier stages of our studio,<br />
from straight plans sections and elevations to two-dimensional and three-dimensional constructions, animations,<br />
performances, “interviews” with artists, etc., expanding them as the project evolves. I propose that each<br />
student begins with a large site plan (let’s say at 1”=40’ scale) drawing free hand with particular attention to the<br />
syntax and structure of both the drawing and the site (buildings,<br />
streets, landscape, etc.)<br />
READINGS AND WRITING<br />
We will continue with our readings and discussions, also looking at the work of artists, designers, writers, etc.<br />
As background for the project of the library we may read various excerpts from Alberto Manguel’s “A History of<br />
Reading” (Viking, 1996.) Individually and as a group we will look at other readings but I propose that we specifically<br />
read and discuss two short stories from Jorge Luis Borges’s “Ficciones” (Grove Press, 1962.) We can begin<br />
with “Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote” and later read “The Library of Babel” (of course I believe that these<br />
stories are related to the issues and questions of our project; I could explain, but it would spoil the fun.)<br />
TENTATIVE STUDIO SCHEDULE<br />
Tue. Apr. 1 Second Project: A Library for the Bauhaus in Dessau 6<br />
Thu. Apr. 3<br />
Tue. Apr. 8 7<br />
Thu. Apr. 10<br />
Tue. Apr. 14 8<br />
Thu. Apr. 16<br />
Tue. Apr. 22 9<br />
Thu. Apr. 24 Intermediate Review<br />
Tue. Apr. 29 Drawing workshop with Prof. Tom Mills 10<br />
Thu. May 1 (visit of the Dessau group from April 26 to May 3)<br />
Tue. May 6 11<br />
Thu. Apr. 8<br />
Tue. May 13 12<br />
Thu. Apr. 15<br />
Wed. May 21 Final review - BEB 219
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Damir Vukovjak, Bosnia and Herzegovina<br />
graduate, second year
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Ryohei Tsutsui, Japan<br />
graduate, second year
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Andrew D. Simes, US<br />
graduate, second year
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Chelsea D. Limbird, US<br />
graduate, second year
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PROJECT: A NEW STUDENT GRADUATE CENTER AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
WHY STUDENT CENTER? 98 I 99
WHAT SHOULD BE INVOLVED IN A STUDENT CENTER?<br />
> mix of spaces<br />
> Configurable, flexible spaces for multi-purpose uses and crossdisciplinary work<br />
> space ranging from small meeting rooms to large conference / event rooms<br />
> Variety of food offers<br />
> 24-hour late night dining options
LINE BETWEEN CITY AND UNIVERSITY, LAW CONSULTANCY CENTRE<br />
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Harvard as a city catalyst<br />
citizens as harvard’s audience<br />
connection<br />
between them as an important aspect<br />
citizens gain legal service<br />
from law students<br />
law students get experience
WHAT DO WE NEED WITH REFERENCE TO EXISTING CONDITIONS?<br />
isolation<br />
from big avenue<br />
seclusion<br />
connection<br />
gropius building<br />
7dormitories and harkness commons<br />
connection<br />
green area<br />
law school main yard<br />
connection<br />
direction relocation<br />
new studetn dormitories<br />
green areas<br />
relation<br />
old houses location<br />
house in house<br />
house in house<br />
for citizens<br />
law consultancy centre
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> EVOLUTION<br />
geometrics
Stephanie Fähnrich, Germany<br />
4th year Bachelor Program<br />
> THESES<br />
places to meet<br />
network / interpretation<br />
Inspired by the Yale-Art-Gallery of Louis<br />
Kahn and the contention with the Modernism<br />
in our preparatory, I worked with geometrics<br />
to create urban space. Additional<br />
to that the site plan of the area was full of<br />
geometric forms and bodies. Next to my first<br />
mind-mappings I study projects and works<br />
of modern artists like Mondrian, Feininger,<br />
Klee and Albers. Especially the colour/formstudies<br />
of Josef Albers impressed me a lot.<br />
My aims was to build public place, a place<br />
to meet, in opposite to that a more intimate<br />
place like courts and finally a connection<br />
between the different parts/functions like a<br />
network which represents the students-life.<br />
The excursion to Providence was a great<br />
and unique experience to me and my study.<br />
The most impressive point I will always remember<br />
is the very common way the american<br />
students work and communicate.<br />
connection
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> DESIGN<br />
groundfloor 1:500
II. floor 1:500<br />
I. floor 1:500
groundfloor 1:2000<br />
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Thomas Ave, Germany<br />
4th year Bachelor Program
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view from east 1:500
Erik Zein, Germany<br />
4th year Bachelor Program<br />
MCB . MULTITASKING CENTER BOSTON : it follows from parallel<br />
alignment a cutting of rooms and consequently a cutting of<br />
buildings in my concept : with a repeatedly found form > the trapezium<br />
: taking up an old road link in the east, seperate from delimitation,<br />
but it will turn into a new water bound way system : the<br />
way system works as orientation and it is an very important part<br />
of my concept at the same time : the concept opens to the east<br />
through 3 solitary vitreous which urbanize concept and room simultaneously<br />
: in that way released the look the historical scenery
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ENFILADE: Suite de choses, à la suite les unes des autres.<br />
From French, from enfiler, to ‚thread on a string, pierce from end<br />
to end’Sequence of things such as spaces one after the other
Sabrina lo Cicero, Canada<br />
1st year Mastercourse DIA
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„Cambridge is the spirited side of the historic Charles<br />
River. Packed with international flair and a youthful vitality,<br />
it is the birthplace of higher education in America.<br />
Harvard College was founded in 1636 and, across town,<br />
Massachusetts Institute of Technologie (MIT) is renowned<br />
as the epicenter of the emerging cyberculture.“
Winnie Y.-P. Chan, Canada<br />
1st year Mastercourse DIA<br />
A student centre for the Harvard Law school. I have get into<br />
an exploration of the nature of space but unfortunately the<br />
project is not complete. The trip to RISD/<strong>USA</strong> led me to get<br />
into a more design approach to this project. For example the<br />
drawing workshop with students from RISD was a nice experience<br />
to start approaching the project in a new perspective.
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ACADEMIC<br />
RECREATIONAL<br />
SOCIAL<br />
PUBLIC<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Classrooms<br />
Research Labs<br />
Administration<br />
Game Room<br />
Gymnasium<br />
Party Space<br />
Cafeteria<br />
Bookshop<br />
Law Practice<br />
Exhibition<br />
Cinema<br />
Multi purpose hall<br />
Video Shop
Narcisa Hadzic, Bosnia-Herzegovina<br />
1st year Mastercourse DIA
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LECTURES