Tools of the Architect Exhibition

Technique

Graduation Project by Silvio Pennesi located in Bogotá, Colombia

Praxeology

Graduation Project by Valentina Bencic and Yoana Yordanova located in Bogotá, Colombia

Typology

Graduation Project by Agnieszka Batkiewicz and Veronika Mayr located in Casablanca, Morocco

Phenomenology/ Description

Graduation Project by Davide Perrotoni located in Merano, Italy

Transformation is in the past

MSc1 Project by Francesco Bozzerlo and Francesca Martellono, Amsterdam Noord

Poetic Collage

MSc1 Project by Ruixin Chen located in Ijmuiden, The Netherlands

Story Machine

MSc1 Project by Silvia Acar and Ana Lisonek located in Antwerpen, Belgium

Private/Public Interior

Interiors Buildings Cities, the analysis of Museum Lambert van Meerten by student Tingyu Zeng

Movement through Space

Probing into Precedents, the analysis of Il Danteum by student Matthijs Vreke

Materiality

Bachelor Group Project analysing the Casa Girasole by Luigi Moretti, 1950, Rome

Stack and connect

Bachelor Group Project analysing the Papaverhof by Jan Wils, 1921, Den Haag

Methods and Analysis

At the Chair of Methods and Analysis we try to learn about architecture and the built environment in two interrelated ways:

On the one hand  by studying and testing the tools and procedures – the methods – that have been, are being, or can be used by architects in the production of the built environment.

On the other hand by studying parts of that built environment critically or systematically; analysing them, in order to understand some of the components, logics, and processes that could further inform them.

Based on these two premises, we have assembled this small selection of projects which represents our collective interests and ambitions. All of these projects were developed by students between 2014 and 2017, in courses offered by the Chair at the Bachelors and Masters levels of education. 

A threefold structure

Each of these projects is presented as a triptych.

The first panel of each triptych represents an architectural question. This question has been defined or formulated as the result of analysing a specific situation in a particular way.

The second panel represents a method: tools and procedures that appear useful to confront that particular question.

The third panel represents the confrontation of that question and method. We understand this result not only as a project, but as the architectural knowledge produced in the process, or what we have learned.

The condition to learn about architecture

As these student projects illustrate, the formative process from question to result spans from the Delft tradition of plan analysis, to the definition of distinct architectural positions, based on the acknowledgment and study of architectural epistèmes – or broader systems of architectural knowledge.  

Despite their different approaches or degrees of complexity, these projects testify that our ambition to learn about architecture is strongly based on a critical and rigorous analysis of the built environment; and, on our study and use of simple and reliable architectural methods, such as drawing writing and modelling.

We claim that operative interrelations between methods and analyses establish the condition to learn about architecture.

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