Tutorials this Friday will be as follows:
10 Laetitia
10.30 Iren
11 Solveig
11.30 Gosia
12 Marine
12.30 Isabel
2 Seminar on La permuta
2.30 Mathilda
3 Tommaso
3.30 Carlos
4 Nikitas
4.30 Lana
5 Kamal
POLITICS OF BLOCK INSERTIONS
After researching Havana urban grid and complexity, a location or context of each individual proposal – vacant or not- is selected. Each intervention will redensify, infiltrate, rearticulate or totally redo independent blocks in the city feeding together a speculative network of home-swapping in Havana.
Building on the conversation from first term on form, the politics generated by the block in the city fabric, after being placed, will be assessed and discussed. Collages and short texts will define each proposal critical position.
In addition, block proposals will be interrogated regarding their relationships with its immediate context and the passer-by. Its capability in specific locations to engage with the city public space will be put into question. In this sense, the context is brought forward as an important part of each proposal design.
Lecture: Canales & Lombardero, “New Formalism”, Lecture at Architectural Association, 2017.
Readings
– Pier Vittorio Aureli, “Rossi: The Concept of the locus as a political category of the city”, in The Project of Autonomy, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008, pp.53-69.
– David Harvey: Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution, London; New York : Verso, 2012.
HAVANA URBAN COMPLEXITY
A research on Cuban sociocultural, political and economical issues will be individually planned at the end of the term and conducted
before and during the unit trip. Readings, visioning of documentaries and check of references will help in this process. This investigation will have a major focus on local ways of living, different cultural customs and spatial characteristics where everyday life takes place.
Findings will be expressed in different analytical diagrams, video fragments, photographs and information maps that will be completed
after the unit trip and edited in a booklet. The major aim of this exercise is to define each block context and content.
Reference books for diagrams:
– David McCandless: Knowledge is Beautiful, London: William Collins, 2014.
– Steven Heller: Infographics Designers’ Sketchbooks, New York: Princeton Architectural Press , 2014.
– David McCandless: Information is beautiful
– Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling
– Cool Infographics: Effective Communication with Data Visualization and Design
Photography:
– Robert. Polidori (Photos) Elizabeth Culbert; Eduardo Luis Rodríguez (Ed.): Havana, Göttingen : Steidl 2001
– Gianni Basso Vega, MG (Photos), Julio Cesar Perez Hernandez Angelika Taschen (ed): Inside Cuba, Koln : Taschen, 2006.
– Chip. Cooper Néstor Martí; et al: Old Havana : spirit of the living city, Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012.
– Michael Eastman: Havana, New Yor: Prestel, 2011.
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Readings:
– Roberto Segre: Havana, Grove Art Online: Oxford University Press 1996
– John Miller and Susannah Clark (Ed): Havana. Tales on the city, San Francisco : Chronicle Books 1996.
– Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr and Pamela María Smorkaloff (Eds): The Cuba reader: history, culture, politics, Durham, N.C. ;
London : Duke University Press, 2004.
– Alfredo Jose Estrada: Havana: autobiography of a city, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
– Oscar Guardiola-Rivera: What if Latin America Ruled the World?, London: Bloomsbury, 2011.
– Guadalupe García: Beyond the walled city : colonial exclusion in Havana, Oakland, California : University of California Press 2016
Documentaries & Movies: Havana Documentary by Jasper Goldman (2017); Elena by Marcelo Martin (2014). I am Cuba by
Mikhail Kalatozov (1954), Buena Vista Social Club by Wim Wenders (1999), Suite Havana by Fernando Perez (2003), Havana
Blues by Benito Zambrano (2005), 7 days in Havana by Various directors (2012), Four Seasons in Havana by Leonardo Padura,
Lucía López Coll (2016), Yuli by Icíar Bollaín (2018) & The Wasp Network by Olivier Assayas (2019)
Tutorials W2 2
Tutorials on Friday 11th of October will be as follows:
Morning: Third Years (10 Kamal, 10.30 Lana, 11 Nikitas, 11.30 Tomasso and 12 Carlos)
Afternoon: Second Years (2 Marine, 2.30 Solveig, 3 Isabel, 3.30 Mathilda, 4 Gosia, 4.30 Laetitia)
Shape First Phase Pin-up
This Friday 5th of October we will have a pin-up of first schematic models at unit space starting at 10.30 am till 6pm. Bring all your models, sketches and drawings. If you have some material tests for next steps, please bring them as well. Please place your work in the central big table.
Extended brief
Welcome to Intermediate Unit 8!!
You can check our extended brief in the following link: https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/Downloads/briefs2018/INTER%208%2018-19.pdf
Intermediate Unit 8 Presentation will take place in the Lecture Hall on Tuesday 25th of September at 11am. See you there.