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ARCH 121 – DESIGN II
Professors Guido Zuliani, Jennifer Lee, Pablo Lorenzo–Eiroa, and Caroline O'Donnell
In the second decade of the XX century the architects Le Corbusier and Adolf Loos introduced the architectural culture to new spatial paradigms soon to become canonical: the former proposed the ideas of the “Free Plan” and of the “Megaron”; the later the concept of a spatial composition that he defined as “Raum Plan”, the spatial plan. Although antithetical to each other, both approaches to the spatial organization of the architectural object offered radical alternatives to the classical idea of space and composition and are still subject to consideration, discussion and application.
The studio activities will focus on an extensive analysis of nine houses by Le Corbusier and eight by Adolf Loos. These analysis, executed by means of drawings and models, will center on the investigation of the specific formal compositional content of each single architecture.
Furthermore, the analytical work will be structured in different phases: from the initial descriptive rendition of the object of analysis in form of plans, elevations, sections and operable model, followed by an intermediary stage in which different compositional tropes are to be identified by means of analytical drawings and models, to the more conceptual, abstract and projective final one.
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