CIIT
Lahore | ARC-212 | Architecture Design & Presentation | 2016
Analyzing Architecture
Defining Modern Architecture
Duration: 1 weeks
Semester weightage: 5%
“Architecture should speak for its time and
place, but yearn for timelessness” Frank Gehry
Project Brief
The goal of this project is to investigate history on some of the pivotal events that have
shaped our understanding and approach to architecture. Emphasis of discussion will be
primarily on buildings and works of individual architects. Canonical architects,
buildings and movements that have exerted significant influences on the development
of architecture will be studied in detail. As a final project, each student will analyze a
building through drawings, text, bibliography and a physical model in a format ready
for documentation and exhibition.
Keywords
• Ground
• Wall
• Frame
• Path
• Building Form
• Materials
• Concepts
• Circumstances surrounding design
• Interior
• Exterior
• Design Methods
Project Objectives
• To work as a team.
• To explore and analyse precedent in architectural
design.
• To develop representational and communication skills.
• Learning about the elements of modern architecture
• Learning architectural vocabulary and
conceptualization development
• Understanding the usage of appropriate material
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• Learning and reconfiguring architectural drawings in
details
Precedent List
1. Le Corbusier – LaTourette
2. Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe – Barcelona Pavilion
3. Frank Gehry – Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
4. Louis Kahn – Salk Institute for biological Studies
5. Tadao Ando – Church on the Water
6. Renzo Piano and Richard Roger – Centre Georges Pomidou
7. Toyo Ito – Sendai Mediatheque Sendai-Shi
8. Rem Koolhaas – Casa da Musica
9. Peter Zumthor – Kunsthaus Bregenz
10. Jean Nouvel – Arab World Institute
11. Richard Meier – Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
12. Santiago Calatrava – Quadracci Pavilion
13. Herzog & de Meuron – Caixa Forum
14. Alvar Aalto – Saynatsalo Town Hall
15. Walter Gropius – The Bauhaus
16. Shigaru Ban – The shutter house
17. Carlo Scarpa - cemetery for Brionvega boss
18. Daniel Libeskind – Imperial War Museum North
19. SANAA - Zollverein School of Management and Design
20. Anna Heringer + Eike Roswag - School Handmade
Project Deliverables
Architecture plays a major role in defining an urban fabric of a city that dictates the
characteristics of a space, standard of living and a holistic perception towards it. It has
an impact to bring the cultural, social and economic difference in the society.
You are all required to pick an Architect from the list above and do a comprehensive
analysis on the allotted case study. You also need to understand the buildings and its
immediate surroundings in detail to have a seamless idea about its form, space and
materiality. Understand the conceptualization and as to how it is driven and translated
into a form and an inhabitable space. Learn about its research approach and design
methodologies.
Analysis Filters
• Architect and the back ground
• Concept/Ideation/Approach
• Response to Programme
• Context/ Site/ History/ Culture
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• Movement/Circulation
• Key Drawings
• Experience (light/materiality)
• Hierarchy of spaces
• Geometry
• Mass/Structure
You are required to translate the robust analysis into handmade sketches and drawings.
(No computer generated drawings allowed). Documentation also includes
reconstructed key plans, sections, elevations and a physical model of a manageable
scale from your research.
Finally, submit one 20 x 30 panel containing the following:
• Building introduction and concept
• Detailed diagrammatic analysis
• Reconstruction of Plans, sections, elevation, axonometric studies
• Materiality
Project Schedule
Project Handout 2nd of February, 2016
Submission 9th of February, 2016
Jury days start at 10 AM. In case you cannot come to the jury, inform your instructor before the
jury day and submit all of the work that you have done up to that point. As there is no option for
a late submission, you will be marked “0/ F” for the jury otherwise.
Contact Saman Malik (Co) samanmalik@[Link]
Musa Jadoon musajadoon@[Link]
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