AR3004 Contemporary Processes in Architectural Design Syllabus:

AR3004 Contemporary Processes in Architectural Design Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

OBJECTIVES

 To introduce theories of media and its influence on the perception of space.
 To enable study of the various aspects of digital architecture and its exploration through emerging phenomena that relies on abstraction of ideas.
 To give understanding of the works of contemporary architects who have illustrated the influence of digital media in architecture.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION

Investigation of contemporary theories of media and their influence on the perception of space and architecture. Technology and art. Technology and architecture. Digital technology and architecture.

UNIT II ASPECT OF DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE

Aspects of digital architecture. Design and computation. Difference between digital process and non-digital process. Architecture and cyberspace. Qualities of the new space. Issues of aesthetics and authorship of design. Increased Automatism and its influence.

UNIT III CONTEMPORARY PROCESS

Emerging phenomena such as increasing formal and functional abstractions. Diagrams, diagrammatic reasoning, diagrams and design process. Animation and design. Digital hybrid.

UNIT IV GEOMETRIES AND SURFACES

Fractal geometry. Shape grammar. Hyper surface. Liquid architecture. Responsive architecture.

UNIT V CONTEMPORARY PROCESS AND ARCHITECTURAL WORKS

Ideas and works of architects related to contemporary processes. The architects to include Greg Lynn, Reiser + Umemotto, Lars Spuybroek / NOX Architects, UN studio, Diller Scofidio, Dominique Perrault, Decoi, Marcos Novak, Foreign Office Architects, Asymptote, Herzog and de Meuron, Neil Denari, Serie Architects, BIG Architects. Study to be undertaken in the form of assignments/discussions/seminars/presentations.

OUTCOME

 An understanding of the effect of contemporary theories of media on contemporary architectural design.
 Insight into contemporary design process/theories and their relation to computation.
 Ability to understand specific aspects of contemporary processes appropriate to a design situation.
 Familiarity with architectural works derived from contemporary processes.

TEXTBOOKS

1. Walter Benjamin, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, in Illuminations, Schocken Books, New York, 1969
2. Ignaci de Sola Morales, Differences: Topographies of Contemporary Architecture’, MIT Press,1997.
3. William J Mitchell, ‘The Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation and Cognition’, MIT Press, 1995.
4. Ali Rahim, ‘Contemporary Process in Architecture’, John Wiley and Sons, 2000.
5. Ali Rahim (Ed), ‘Contemporary Techniques in Architecture’, Halsted Press, 2002.
6. Peter Eisenmann; Diagram Diaries, Universe,1999.
7. Grey Lynn, ‘The Folded, The Pliant and The Supple, Animate form’, Princeton Arch. Press,1999.

REFERENCES

1. Gillian Hunt, ‘Architecture in the Cyberspace II’, John Wiley and Sons, 2001.
2. L. Convey et al, ‘Virtual Architecture’, Bats ford, 1995.
3. Rob Shields (ed.), ‘Cultures of the internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living bodies’,Sage, London, 1996.
4. John Beckman, ‘The Virtual Dimension, Architecture, Representation and Crash Culture’, Princeton Architecture Press, 1998.
5. William J Mitchell, City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn’, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995.
6. Marcos Novak, ‘Invisible Architecture: An Installation for the Greek Pavilion’, Venice Biennale, 2000.