The Carpenter Center

READINGS

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Bell Hooks_Black Vernacular: Architecture as Cultural Practice

Betty Edwards_Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

Scott McCloud_Show and Tell.

LeCorbusier_Programs and Manifestos on 20th Century Architecture.

David Bayles & Ted Orland_Art and Fear.

H. Allen Brooks_Frank Lloyd Wright and the Destruction of the Box.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi_If We Are So Rich Why Are We Not Happy.

Paul Goldberg_The House as Sculptural Object.

Chernikov_The Elements of Form.

Beatrice Colomina_The House that Build Frank Gehry.

Stuart Hall_Negotiating Architecture.

CarpenterCenter LeCorbusier

Hopefully your feet are all now well rested after yesterday’s excursion around Cambridge. I’ve posted some boards a group of students and I had put together for an analysis project on the Corb’s Carpenter center while in school. Look at the plans, sections and elevations of the building and compare it to how you sketched and diagrammed the building when we were on site. Look at the diagrams as examples of ways you might diagram projects or analysis. After critically looking at everything re-sketch a series of diagrams about your experience in the building. Try and focus on the concepts we have developed in studio.

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