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Using Diagramming for Ideation in Architecture
This document discusses the use and purpose of diagrams in architecture. It provides quotes and thoughts from several architects on how diagrams can represent threshold moments in design, focus on general ideas and concepts, and clarify and explain design intentions. Diagrams are described as being between a concept and a plan, using simple lines to visualize and convey an idea or understanding in a suggestive manner. They can be used to develop, explain, or transform thinking about a design or building project.
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- 1. d D i ag r a m m i n g using line to think and convey understanding
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- 3. d Some thoughts onthe diagram…
- 4. d Some thoughts onthe diagram… “First I think, then I draw my think” Amanda K. Coomaraswamy (1877 – 1947) “Diagrams, in whatever visual form they take, represent a threshold moment in the creation of successful architecture” Alan Phillips
- 5. d Some thoughts onthe diagram… •“Any building should be described by three or four lines” Stefan Behnish •The diagram, as part of the process of design, is inherent to Modernism •Purpose of the diagram?
- 6. d More thoughts onthe diagram… •“ In general, diagrams and sketches explain and highlight a design quite well…” •“Like caricatures, they will focus on the general idea… describe a design concept…” Stephen Behnish
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- 8. d “A diagram issomething between a concept and a plan… a visualisation of a plan” Toyo Ito Sendai Mediatique, Japan
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- 10. d Diagrams expressing clear ideaswith simple pencil strokes. Mies van der Rohe: “tense, elegant and serence… prelude to impeccable architecture” Le Corbusier: “categorical, strong and forceful, speak of the universality of his works” Alvar Aalto: “lyrical, organic, fluid, put forward the emotion of his spaces”
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- 12. d John Miller (JohnMiller + Partners) •Primary & secondary parts of a building •Figure ground theory •Genesis of building through concept rather than through the diagram •Diagram can be used to explain a building, but is not necessarily a tool in its development
- 13. d Fumihiko Maki, Makiand Associates “I always evaluate and consider that the best diagram is one that is simple because the power lies in its suggestiveness for broader interpretation” New campus for republic Polytechnic in Singapore – educational system: PBL (problem based learning)
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- 15. d John Ronan architect •Generated diagrams clarify project intentions, and are “reductive, isolating essential project issues… short hand” • Interpreted diagrams “suggest a new way of thinking about a project… transformative”
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- 20. d aro 2 .08 . 2 0 0 6 d i a g r a m m i n g Combination of technologies, techniques
- 21. d 1. The Architecturalreview, January 2006, pages 28 - 82 s o u r c e