This unit is focused upon increasing one's awareness of style and meaning in architecture through designing houses using a particular style. Students first model various historic precedents to develop toolkits of BIM reusable elements in a particular style. By modeling and designing several houses, you will address design from a stylistic and typological perspective.
Complete the exercises to study style in architecture.
Construction model. Revit file. PDF file.
Palladio Villa, Drawings of villas, Plate 1, Plate 48, Plate 30 Villa Pisani Bagnolo, Plate 31
Weissenhof House, figure 1, figure 2, figure 3, figure 4
Key Houses. Choose a house from the book. Choose a simple one.
Readings
Zevi Modern Language of Architecture
Le Corbusier Towards a New Architecture
Gropius The New Architecture and the Bauhaus
Rowe The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa
Use the following programs of requirements (PORs) to design villas and townhouses.
Villa POR, Revit site model, Aerial photo, AutoCAD drawing, Sketchup Model AutoCAD 48"x96" solid model of site
Townhouse POR, Revit site model, Aerial photo, AutoCAD drawing, Sketchup Model
Essay 3: Theory and Architectural Beauty
Project 3 submittals and grading