Tuesday, March 8, 2011

message 9 March from Prof. X Ruan

Dear All:

I wish to reiterate that I have asked all of you to consider a more conscious framework with which the three presented projects can be self critiqued on Friday. I have made it clear at the lecture that you do not have to use one of the three examples that I discussed at the lecture. If you can, you should develop your own. This self critique may prompt you to decide a new role model/proposition (if the selection of the three projects for last Friday now seem random, or they no longer withstand further scrutiny and critique. From there, a specific esquisse task can be determined for each of you through the discussion with your studio master on Friday.

I include here the key references for lecture 2 if some of you wish to probe into certain aspects of the discussion further:

REFERENCES

Eisenman, Peter (1971) “From Object to relationship II: Casa Giuliani Frigerio” in Perspecta, 13/14: 36-65.

Hejduk, John (1985) Mask of Medusa. Rizzoli, New York

St John Wilson, Colin (1995) The Other Tradition of Modern Architecture: The Uncompleted Project. Academy Editions, London.

Best,

Xing