AR2032
Masters’ Stroke: Matters of Architectural Language Focus Visualizing and Communicating Unit Assistant Nilosha Dave
Faculty of Architecture AR2032 Spring 2021
2 nd Year Aanchal Tejwani Kayvan Gogri Simran Mashruwala Yashodhan Mangukia
3 rd Year Akshat Pagaria Hetarth Mistry Lea Malayil Mannat Singh Nishtha Mehta Priyanka Salunkhe Ramsha Midhat Shannon Maria
Sachin Soni Experiencing a great work of architecture is like reading an excellent piece of literature. It engages the senses through ways in which spatial volumes and form, building scale and light, geometric alignment and organization, materials and textures, structure and details cohere into a meaningful, emotionally charged encounter. It is not surprising that language and architecture have been used as analogies for each other in many ways. Often phrases like ‘language of architecture’ are employed for describing expressive and tectonic qualities in the oeuvre of great architects. This studio explored works of selected architects and tried to decipher respectively, the unique architectural vocabulary and grammar that each of them have developed. Students learnt to derive distinct attitudes of selected architects towards various aspects of architecture through analysis of their work. These attitudes were verified intermediately through small design problems and later tested and modified when employed to design a project in a completely different context. In order to develop skills and sensibilities to approach design through the lens of language of architecture, this studio worked with students to encounter and to engage with the great works of architects
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