Week 6 : Drawing Maps complete week

Here is Architecture 101 Week 6: Drawing Maps exercises

Week 4: Observing the Weather complete week

Here is Architecture 101 Week 4: Observing the Weather exercises

Week 3: Making Collages complete week

Here is my Architecture 101 Week 3: Making Collages exercises.

original work here: http://www.polyvore.com/romance_in_many_dimensions/set?id=146782186

original work here: http://www.polyvore.com/insidenooutside/set?id=146859279

original work: http://www.polyvore.com/stealingthingsis/set?id=147384767

original work: http://www.polyvore.com/brianenosays/set?id=147398309

Week 2: Learning to Sketch complete week

Here is Architecture 101 Week 2: Learning to sketch exercises

Week 1: Taking Pictures complete week

Here is Architecture 101 Week1: Taking Pictures

My submissions week 5: Shaping Diagrams

Here is all my exercises from the  Architecture 101 week Shaping Diagrams

Week 5: Shaping Diagrams

Week 4: #MyBusinessIs 20/101 cloud hunting

Here is my moving cloud exercise made with lapseit. Thanks to my amazing boyfriend I was able to make this homework. Thank you R.
Designing is 25% of DNA, 25% of education, 25% of social skills and 25% of being in the right place in the right time.

Week 1: Taking Pictures: Architecture101 #MusicWithoutSound

Rythm of stars in space

Week 1: Taking Pictures: Architecture101 #TvWithoutSignal

I have no tv because I just use video projector and internet to see things if I need to look something. But I was able to find some tv without signal clips in youtube. Not so long to really meditate for 3 minutes. I just kept thinking how useless tv really is but how actually this noise could be art. Everyone can see different things in it. I see in this noise winter landscape like snowman flying over landscape.

framed nothing

Week 1: Taking Pictures: Architecture101 #ThingsWithNoName

What I really wanted to do today was to take some paint and go to find some sunny dry asphalt spot in Berlin where I could practice a little bit of my Jackson Pollock skills.

Instead what I did was make my baby to sleep and let papa babysit for a while. Then sneak out fast from the house realising all streets were wet from the rain and only dry asphalt spot was in the inner yard of my house. Today of all days happened to be the day when Hausvervaltung came to check all apartments water meters so playing out with my colours was not an option as they would have given me a warning or a fine. No harm in throwing some water thou.

So this is what I got. I actually see some meaning in this photo. I like to call these maple three seeds as fairys wings. So in my eyes this photo is like fairies who have fallen to the ground.

Here is my play result from spirograph :)

Week 1: Taking Pictures: Architecture101 #50000YearsAgo

50000 years ago, things had no name... Here, if you want, you have the link to the video on YouTube.

process picture of the same crumpled paper

Week 1: Taking Pictures: Architecture101 #RelativeSizeOfThings

This picture is taken by Canon camera and even if the quality is nice I will take all my final exercise pictures with my phone as the course uses instagram as its main forum to show the homework's.

This is a start of a great learning journey. I will document my process here and this blog allows me to show also the process of making my homeworks.

This architecture 101 course is organised by Iversity.org and you can find it here.

Part 1: From Nothingness to Place (Jan 5 to Feb 28, we will work in 2d) 

Architecture 101 (part 1: from nothingness to place)

To start our journey, we will deal with the absence of space and place.
Something that could be defined as “nothingness”.

As Ang Lee or Paul Valery would respectively say :
“The source of all the material comes from nothingness.”
“God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.” 

In a different way, Ludwig Wittgenstein taught us that when things have no name, they don’t exist. Hence in order to understand things, we have to start with worlds in which things have no name. Pieces of music without sound. Televisions without signal.

We will go through the process of shaping meaning. Articulate and complex meanings, defining relationships between mind and bodies, bodies and places. Little by little, we will encounter places and see the world taking shape. 

All of this, using a “hands-on” system (you will by doing).

Course Structure

Week 1: taking pictures
Week 2: learning to sketch
Week 3: making collages
Week 4: observing the weather
Week 5: shaping diagrams
Week 6: drawing maps
Week 7: passing an exam
Week 8: taking a break

Learning Objectives

To see places like architects do.
To understand the principles upon which we convert a place into a state of mind.
We will explore nothingness, void and negative space.
We will learn to name things, we will learn how to invent place (as we wrote before, when things have no name, they cannot exist).

We will learn to stare, observe and see.
We will learn a significative amount of extremely interesting (and totally useless) things.

All of the above refers to the conceptual part of our course.
Then, since we love having our students making practical things, you will also learn lots of technical things using a number of interesting applications.

At the end, what do I make?

A booklet (with a given proportion, size, appearance) where you will collect all of your visual experiments. Each booklet devoted to a specific “place”. If one thousand people finish this part 1, we will have a fabulous collection of 1000 booklets.

eye to the details

process picture: seeing details around me like this little love bug <3