MEASI Academy of Architecture

Batch: 2013
Jul- Dec 2015

Architectural Design IV
(AR 6514)

Topic:
Section:
Design Chairs:
Design
Faculties:
Stage A: Study

TRIBUTE TO AN ARCHITECT
A
Ar. Anwar Sheriff
Ar. Anjali, Ar.
Hariharan
part

B
Ar. Bharath
Ar. Khalid, Ar.
Suresh

Semester V
C
Ar. Balaji
Ar. Thingom, Ar.
Suhasini

Architecture is a crystallization of different approaches to a similar problem. The

below quotations represent different angles of consideration. Each architect
responds with their own system of priorities in their own language to a given
problem.
Obeying laws, the maker works like his creator: not obeying law, he
is such a fool as heaps a pile of stones and calls it a church. - George
Macdonald 1893
Architecture is open to to analysis like any other aspect of
experience, and is made more vivid by comparison. Analysis includes
the breaking up of architecture into elements.such
disintegration is a process present in all creation and it is essential
to understanding.- Robert Venturi Complexity and Contradiction in
Architecture
You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to
absorb what you see around you and what exists on land and then
use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret
what you see. - Tadao Ando
create a building that would sparkle like isolated jewels ..connect
to form a new kind oflandscape to flow together with.the lives of
people - Zaha Hadid
Nature does not present us with an object in monochrome..for this
reason we must colour partly or wholly or in part every architectural
element. - Antonio Gaudi
What should our designs try to achieve? We must look beyond the
narrow object and ask ourselves: What will be the ecological
consequences?- Sir Ove Arup

Study I: Individual study

Student has to choose one architect to study the architects entire range of works
with focus on a specific project recommended for study. Each student has to arrive
at a summation of the architects vocabulary, style and design process through the
study. Following points need to be addressed in the study.

How does the architect approach design?

In what manner is this philosophy translated into his/her architecture?
Are there any significant elements in use?
What is their approach to spatial design?
What materials and construction type is used?
What structural system is adhered to?
What basic ideology forms the platform from which their design approach is
formulated?

The entire outcome of the study must be through manual presentation. Medium of
presentation is to be decided by individual student.

Study II: Group study

A group of 5-6 student have to choose any one typology of building (i.e. house,
office ,church, and museum ) from the list provided and study how different
architects approach that typology. Outcome of the study should be discussed and
presented in groups. Presentation can be done in any digital media.

Stage B: Application part

At the end of above stages, student will be given a time problem in which the
design philosophy of the chosen architect is to be applied. The topic of the time
problem will be introduced on the day of the time problem.

LIST OF ARCHITECTS AND BULDING TYPES

2

Building Type: HOUSE

1. Peter Eisenman

House no 6

2. Mies van der Rohe

Farnsworth House

3. Aalvar Aalto

Villa Mairea

4. Geoffrey Bawa

De Silva House

5. Frank Lloyd Wright

Robie House

Building type: OFFICE BUILDING

1. Mario Botta

TCS Hyderabad

2. Ken Yeang

Wisma Mesniaga

3. Norman Foster

St Marys Axe Gherkin

4. Raj Rewal

Engineer India House

5. Skidmore,Owings and Merill

John Hancock

Building type : CHURCH

1. Oscar Neimeyer

Cathedral at Brasillia

2. Le Corbusier

Ronchamp

3. Gaudi

Sagrada Familia

4. Felix Candela

Church of Santa Teresa

5. Charles Correa

Church Salvacao

Building type: MUSEUM

1. Frank Gehry

Bilbao Museum

2. Louis Kahn

Kimbell Art gallery and Museum

3. Renzo Piano

New York Museum

4. I. M. Pei

Louvre

5. Tadao Ando

Fort worth Museum

PROGRAM SCHEDULE:
S.N

DATES

SUBMISSIONS

O
1

28.08.15

Introduction of design exercise

04.09.15

Each student has to select/choose an architect

for the study and submit a brief background and

4
5

11.09.15
15.09.15
21.09.15
28.09.15

the sources of study material, his works etc.

Study 1 outline submission with model
Study 2 outline submission
Study 1 final submission with model
Part B: Application Part (time problem with

&20.09.15
05.10.15

model)
Study 2 group presentations