I was born and raised in Ho Chi Minh City, a largest and most industrialized city in Vietnam. Ever since the early 1980s, the colonization of the French has made this city a new Paris of South East Asia, a center Architecture and civilization. Thus, this city has held a crucial cultural role as well as a critical position in economic activities in the region, consequently, after the outbreak of technology and internet it also soon became a hub of technologies advancement. Growing up in such city, I have always fascinating and inspired by urbanism and technologies. Therefore, my professional goal is to merge two of my passions into a better version of architecture.
My architecture journey began when I came to America for my bachelor degree in
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However, foreseeing the raising of technology, even Paris has to prepare itself to adapt with the incoming changes indeed, the Mayor of Paris has already created reinventer.paris, a competition for innovative urban project. I firmly believe with the right application of technologies in architecture, a new type of architecture that is more sustainable could be invented and will redefine the concept of urbanism, for example, using Internet of Thing to connect elements in a building and buildings in an area for more efficient energy consumption or using sensors to passively adjust temperature, moisture, …show more content…
It would be a great opportunity for me to gain more experience in collaborative works not only within SOA but outside with other departments such as engineering and computer sciences also and to push my interest in architecture and technologies further. I hope to contribute my passion and experience to the programs by continuing develop the wall system that I started for ArTech Fusion. Ultimately, that would help me move forward my goal: merging technologies and architecture closer together for a future of higher performance buildings and urban
He suggests that the use of “electronic imaging prevents imagining and promotes thinking about architecture rather than bring architects, contractors, clients and critics to think within architecture” (275). Inspired by Frascari, the strategy of technography is encouraged (278). This is a “different way of thinking about the relationship between a [working] drawing and a future building. Rather than “simply Cartesian, technical lines showing edges, corners and joints these technographic drawings reveal both the symbolic and instrumental representations of the future building.. it is to make visible what is invisible”. Ridgway remarks, “The fact that any of this could be considered contentious indicates that extent to which architects have become alienated from the heart of their profession” (279). He asserts, “Part of any technography must be an acknowledgement of the historical context of construction knowledge. This is not only so we can better understand our rich architectural ancestry, but because it re-establishes a connection with the origins of our profession in building” (279). Rather than a “miniature projected representation of an imagined building, details are drawn as poetic constructions themselves, following the logic of drawing and not building and representing the “built detail symbolically, in addition to instrumentally. The symbolic and practical are one and the same thing” (280). “What are the symbolic qualities we are trying to embody in our buildings and how would we represent them in drawings?” becomes the question (278). These drawing “may not be easy or straightforward to understand or interpret.
(Image taken from Tranchtenberg, Marvin, Isabelle Hyman. Architecture: From Prehistory to Postmodernity. Second Edition. Prentice Hall, Inc. New Jersey: 2002.)
James F. O'Gorman, Dennis E. McGrath. ABC of Architecture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Document. October 2013.
Building from my background of art and architecture, I have developed an understanding for both creativity and the technical. Through the years, the analysis of artworks evolved my ability to look closer at elements of art to find the cultural influences and perception of the artist. I consider the city itself to be a living piece of art, which can be broken down into comprehensible list of elements similar to those used in analyzing artworks. In recent years, the architectural classes have offered me a more technical way to view the city and individual buildings. Learning about the int...
The emergence of new technology became the major inspiration for modern architects. For example, Frank Lloyd Wright has purposed a technological manifesto, The Art and Craft of the Machine, which was the foundation for his later proposal on Broadacre City that was entirely constructed on automobile-based city . Many more examples that showed an enthusiasm about technology driven projects can be found in modern architecture, which overlooked the emerging energy and ecological problems, as was most of the historians emphasized afterwards. The environmental problems caused by their embrace on oil-based technologies are architects will confront in the future. On the other hand, modernization was certainly not only about technology. It was about building a rational society, which means an emancipatory society . Rationality and functionality have taken a prominent place in modern projects. Therefore, modernism was a process mediating the constraints of nature by using science and technology. In other word, we can reinterpret modernism by considering it as a procedure that concentrated on quality of architecture with adaptability, productivity and profits as driving force in relation to sustainability. Instead of treating modernism as purely technocratic, we can take the advantage of modernism’s methods on technological, social and political adjustment in order to
The essence of modern architecture lays in a remarkable strives to reconcile the core principles of architectural design with rapid technological advancement and the modernization of society. However, it took “the form of numerous movements, schools of design, and architectural styles, some in tension with one another, and often equally defying such classification, to establish modernism as a distinctive architectural movement” (Robinson and Foell). Although, the narrower concept of modernism in architecture is broadly characterized by simplification of form and subtraction of ornament from the structure and theme of the building, meaning that the result of design should derive directly from its purpose; the visual expression of the structure, particularly the visual importance of the horizontal and vertical lines typical for the International Style modernism, the use of industrially-produced materials and adaptation of the machine aesthetic, as well as the truth to materials concept, meaning that the true nat...
In the process of development of human society, architecture and culture are inseparable. Cuthbert (1985) indicates that architecture, with its unique art form, expresses the level of human culture in different historical stages, as well as the yearning towards the future. According to his article, it can be said that architecture has become one of the physical means for human to change the world and to conquer the nature. Consequently, architecture has been an important component of human civilization. Since 1980s when China started the opening and reforming policy, a variety of architectural ideas, schools and styles have sprung up. Accompanying with a momentum of...
To understand the role of place in architecture, the author compares architecture to language. Language has patterns and arrangements, architecture relates directly to what humans do. It changes or evolves as
Renzo respects that is it important to not become self referential with design. Therefore, to truly understand the reality of a city, Renzo will never accept a new job without visiting the space first. This is to find the fundamental emotions, which he states is the true source of inspiration (Archinect, 2006). Furthermore, Renzo and his team will make hundreds of models after research to test their theories. “Versions enable us to understand how the pieces will work with each other”, Renzo once said (BMIAA, 2015).
The year of 2012 marked the completion of Frank Gehry’s very first residential project in Asia, the Opus Hong Kong. Coming from a Pritzker prize-winning architect, this residential complex cannot be labeled as just another building. Frank Gehry engraved his distinctive and whimsical style on the building, making it beautifully unique. However, the appeal of this building does not stop on its exterior. Serving its purpose as a residential unit, the building was meticulously designed to fit into the cultural aspect of the potential residents.
A manifesto by definition is “a declaration of policy and aims” so taken from this description, an architectural manifesto would be the ideas of the architect. The new project for history is to come up with our own Manifesto, before one can do this, research needs to be done and examples must be looked at. So this essay will look at the process of creating a manifesto and the essay will also discuss other architectural manifestos which were used as inspiration for me to create my own manifesto.
There are 25 major specialties in engineering that are recognized by professional societies. In any one of those 25 specialties, the goal of the engineer is the same. The goal is to be able to come up with a cost effective design that aids people in the tasks they face each day. Whether it be the coffee machine in the morning or the roads and highways we travel, or even the cars we travel in, it was all an idea that started with an engineer. Someone engineered each idea to make it the best solution to a problem. Even though engineer’s goals are similar, there are many different things that engineers do within their selected field of engineering. This paper will focus on the architectural field of engineering.
... architectures would led to a more organic organization beneficial to the people that choose to make their lives in this city. Although this model of a sustainable city is not a perfectly closed loop, it lays the foundation for one that is. Over time, with constantly evolving and improving technology and new methods of design from the scale of products to buildings, the gaps in the loop could be closed, and a “true” sustainable city could be fully realized.
The book as a description of modern architecture, its styles and influence succeeds but falls short as a prescriptive methodology. His work is still recalled for the need by modernists to categorize everything into neat little boxes, not necessarily for the sake of uniformity, but for sake of some ambiguity. The ambiguity may be the triumph of this book as post modern architecture era is supposed to create more questions than the answers.
Architecture operates with in the confines of a creative field and the current economic means, these two systems would prefer to operate independently, however are innately linked. Although most people would rather have you believe that they create a finite juxtaposition between the two. Architecture is seldom considered both a profitable business and a functioning artistic outlet, in which practitioners are consistently made to choose between the two. However it is conceivable that between modern architectural practice and the application of typical business, that architects have the tools to overcome the current status quo. Through the many architectural business models created I intend to argue that a hybrid model could coexist if not only to feed actual architectural inspiration. The fields of architecture are consistently related albeit simplistically though brand, design, engineering, and real estate, which all ultimately feed into the greater economic market which everyone takes part. As the role of the architect changes we should consistently be using everything in our means to maintain our societal significance. Thus as our role of the master builder becomes appropriated by computational BIM software and our sister professions, architects as creators should use their skills to broaden their reach into all environments in which we live.