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EXPRESSION OF FORM

Architecture is a thing of art, a phenomenon of the emotions,

lying outside questions of construction and beyond them.

The purpose of construction is to make things hold together;

of architecture to move us.

Thomas Thiis Evensen

ENDS205-502

Dr. Antonieta H. Angulo

DESCRIPTIVE REPRESENTATION OF A DESIGN PROCESS

EXPRESSION OF FORM

1. About the Planning Phase in Design

2. About the Generation Phase in Design

3. About the Evaluation Phase in Design


1.1. Gathering Data

1.2. Establishing Design Intentions or Goals

1.2.1.Utilitarian Purpose, Construction Performance, and Aesthetics

1.2.2.Formal Aesthetic Goals: Dealing with Extreme Order and Total Chaos
1.2.2.1. Simplicity and Complexity
1.2.2.2. Regularity and Anomaly

1.2.2.3. Symmetrical Balance and Asymmetrical Balance

1.2.2.4. Uniformity and Contrast

1.3.Inferring a Formative Idea
1.3.1.Metaphors

1.3.2.Design Paradigms

1.1. GATHERING DATA: DESIGN CONSTRAINTS

1.2.1. UTILITARIAN PURPOSE, CONSTRUCTION PERFORMANCE AND
AESTHETICS: DESIGN REQUIREMENTS

1.2.1. MORE ABOUT UTILITARIAN PURPOSE, CONSTRUCTION PERFORMANCE
AND AESTHETICS: EXPRESSION AND SYMBOLIC AESTHETICS

1.2.1. MORE ABOUT UTILITARIAN PURPOSE, CONSTRUCTION PERFORMANCE
AND AESTHETICS: EXPRESSION AND FORMAL AESTHETICS

1.2.2. FORMAL AESTHETIC GOALS: DEALING WITH EXTREME ORDER AND
TOTAL CHAOS

1.2.2. MORE ABOUT FORMAL AESTHETIC GOALS: DEALING WITH EXTREME
ORDER AND TOTAL CHAOS

1.2.2. Formal aesthetic Goals: dealing with extreme order and total chaos
1.2.2.1. SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXITY

1.2.2.1. MORE ABOUT SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXITY

1.2.2.2. REGULARITY AND ANOMALY

1.2.2.2. MORE ABOUT REGULARITY AND ANOMALY

1.2.2.3. SYMMETRICAL BALANCE AND ASYMMETRICAL BALANCE

1.2.2.3. MORE SYMMETRICAL BALANCE AND ASYMMETRICAL BALANCE

1.2.2.3. UNIFORMITY AND CONTRAST

1.2.2.3. MORE ABOUT UNIFORMITY AND CONTRAST

1.3. Inferring Formative Ideas
1.3.1. METAPHORS

1.3.1. MORE ABOUT METAPHORS

1.3.2. DESIGN PARADIGMS

1.3.2. MORE ABOUT DESIGN PARADIGMS

2. About the Generation Phase in Design

a. - Identification of the design elements

b. - Generation of the conceptual organization:

choosing the structure (the parti)

c. - Application of organizing principles

d. - Implementation of design manipulations

e. - Definition of formal relationships and joints

3. About the Evaluation Phase in Design

3.1. Performance Evaluation

3.2. Evaluation of Formal Aesthetics: Interpretation of Existential Expression

and Symbolic Meaning

3. About the Evaluation Phase in design
3.2. EVALUATION OF FORMAL AESTHETICS: INTERPRETATION OF EXISTENTIAL EXPRESSION AND SYMBOLIC MEANING

3. About the Evaluation Phase in design
3.2. MORE ABOUT EVALUATION OF FORMAL AESTHETICS: INTERPRETATION OF EXISTENTIAL EXPRESSION AND SYMBOLIC MEANING

References
Archetypes in Architecture, Thomas Thiis Evensen, ISBN 0-19-520819-6Architecture: Form, Space & Order, Francis Ching, ISBN 0-442-21535-5Design Paradigms, Warren Wake, ISBN 0-471-29976-6Elements of Architecture, Pierre Von Meiss, ISBN 0-747-60014-7Poetics of Architecture, Anthony Antoniades ISBN 0-442-23990-4Principles of Form and Design, Wucius Wong, ISBN 0-442-01405-8The Language of Architecture, Luning Prak.
ENDS205-502

Dr. Antonieta H. Angulo

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