GENOVA SPRING 2020
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GENOVA SPRING 2020
Charles E. Daniel Center for Building, Research and Urban Studies 3
Students Graduate: Cameron Gambrell Undergraduate: Kara Ammon Brianna Baldwin Scott Dignacco Allie Glavey Emma Hanson Danny Jarabek Travis King Ellie Kutz Austin Lemere Alan Moreno Matt Poet Kaitlyn Rasmus Rachel Seto Zain Surka Mary Claire Zimmerman
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Undergraduate: (L.Arch) Dana Marie Masters Elizabeth Rooney Connor Trout Administrator Silvia Siboldi Carroll Staff: Cristina Lagomarsino Lucia Ruggiero
Professor in Residence Henrique Houayek* Faculty Saverio Fera Giuditta Poletti Luca Rocco Danilo Vespier * Family Kelly Houayek Helena Houayek
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Notes from a unique semester: The Villa Spring of 2020 semester was certainly particular. Due to the virus outbreak, all the students returned to the United States in the middle of the semester, this was the first time something like this had ever happened in almost fifty years of Villa program. With this, came the challenge of how to adjust to this novel condition and how to complete the course work, the Studio project and all other academic expectations. I am happy to say that the students were extremely mature when handling this situation and faced with great distinction the challenges of returning half way and continuing the semester with online work.
This book is an evidence of their great work and is dedicated to the Spring 2020 Students, as well as, the Daniel family and all the donors, and friends of the Villa for their generous support over the years:
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Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Forrester Little & Associates Architects CU & RW Oakley Mr. Frederick George “Fritz� Roth Mrs. Jeanne G. Fowler Mr. and Mrs. John H. Jameson, Jr. Mr. Raymond Stainback, Thompson Ventulett Stainback & Associates
DA Gardner Mr. William Pelham, Pelham Architects, LLC Mr. David Olesker, for the Anne Landsman Isenburger Memorial Fellowship Dr. Cesare Fera, in memoriam Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Powell Mrs. Mary F. Powell
Table of Contents Semester Photos
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Villa Lecture Series Facades Field Studies: Sketches
Scarpa 3D Italian Rationalism
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Research and Theory Seminar
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Studio Projects
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Orvieto
Antinori Winery
Vatican
Siena
Antinori Winery
Florence
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Students and Richard Murphy at the Villa Gaden
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Villa Lecture Series
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Genova Facades
Henrique Houayek
As part of your study of Genova and its historical typologies this semester, students were requested to produce a poster with an accurate representation of the façade of seminal Romanesque and Medieval buildings located at the heart of Genova’s Historical Center.
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The students were sent to survey, measure and understand these buildings and then generate an accurate representation of its Facade in 1/75 scale6using AutoCAD and Photoshop. • Palazzo Giacomo Spinola
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• Commenda di San Giovanni di Pré • Chiesa di San Pietro in Banchi
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• Porta Soprana
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Geoffrey Powell Jacob Eller 13
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Porta Soprana
Scott Dignacco Cameron Gambrell Travis King Alan Moreno Matt Poet Connor Trout 15
Palazzo Giacomo Spinola
Kara Ammon Emma Hanson Kaitlyn Rasmus 16
Chiesa di San Pietro in Banchi
Brianna Baldwin Danny Jarabek Austin Lemere Mary Claire Zimmerman
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Commenda di San Giovanni di PrĂŠ
Allie Glavey Ellie Kutz Rachel Seto Zain Surka Dana Marie Masters Elizabeth Rooney
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Field Studies: Sketches On Drawing: Design as an aesthetic practice Henrique Houayek
The Field Studies class has a premise of learning by the encounter and live experiences. Class takes advantage of the unique opportunity and experience students have to attend the Genoa Villa. The purpose of this course is to develop and practice a way of seeing and analyzing the built environment. Explicit in this process is the graphic transformation of that environment onto the two dimensional page. This act is a remarkable process and warrants careful consideration for its usefulness as an analytical tool. The learning process arrives from walking and visiting Genoa and other Italian cities and graphically register these experiences as an architect. Analytical inquiry through drawing can have the reciprocal effect of interpreting the subject and, through the drawing itself, it can also illustrate the process of how the subject is revealed. Simply stated, these analysis drawings are “working drawings”. That is to say, they “work” at providing insightful information and reveal otherwise hidden information about the subject rather than only depicting a landscape scene. Moving beyond a topical tourist photographing, this class focused on strong observation and extensive drawings as a way to record, and memorize interesting architecture and urban moments, as a way to increase the students design repertoire and to become more comfortable in developing and explaining graphically design intents. The unique character and advantage of the “field sketch” is to allow a concentrated amount of time to focus your attention onto a specific place or building in order to discover, analyze and record its complexities. Drawing in the field should be more incisive and exploratory than producing only accurate renderings of a given “scene”.
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The Villa
Brianna Baldwin
Danny Jarabek
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KJ Ammon
Scott Dignacco
Dana Marie Masters
Matt Poet
Ellie Kutz
Genova Via Garibaldi Doors
Danny Jarabek
Emma Hanson
Connor Trout
Alan Moreno
Brianna Baldwin
Mary Claire Zimmerman
KJ Ammon
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Port Soprana Brianna Baldwin
San Matteo Church Left: Zain Surka RightL Connor Trout 24
Genova
Danny Jarabek
San Agostino Church: Connor Trout Emma Hanson 25
Porto Antico Brianna Baldwin 26
Genova
Cameron Gambrell
Ellie Kutz
Austin Lemere
KJ Ammon
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Bocadasse Left: Danny Jarabek Top Right: Allie Glavey Bottom Right: KJ Ammon
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Genova
Bocadasse Top Right: Kaitlyn Rasmus Bottom Right: Scott Dignacco Top Left: Ellie Kutz Bottom Left: Emma Hanson
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Danny Jarabek
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Emma Hanson
Rome Forum and Coliseum
Matt Poet
Rachel Seto
Austin Lemere
Rome
Group Trip
Danny Jarabek
Connor Trout
Emma Hanson
Brianna Baldwin
Alan Moreno
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Saint Peter’s Square Danny Jarabek
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Ara Pacis Emma Hanson
Ara Pacis Danny Jarabek
Maxxi Museum Dana Marie Masters
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane Scott Dignacco
Rome
Group Trip
Saint Peter’s Basilica Emma Hanson
Sant’Agnese in Agone KJ Ammon
Fiumi Fountain Danny Jarabek and Austin Lemere
Cameron Gambrell
Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza Emma Hanson
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Connor Trout
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Mary Claire Zimmerman
Orvieto Group Trip
Church Details: Matt Poet
Church Details: Elizabeth Rooney
Kaitlyn Rasmus
Scott Dignacco
Connor Trout
Brianna Baldwin
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:Mary Claire Zimmerman
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Connor Trout
Austin Lemere
Siena
Group Trip
Duomo Details: Danny Jarabek
Emma Hanson
Ellie Kutz
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San Lorenzo Church Danny Jarabek
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Orsanmichele Altar KJ Ammon
Emma Hanson
Firenze
Group Trip
Orsanmichele arches Emma Hanson
San Miniato al Monte Danny Jarabe
San Lorenzo Church Emma Hanson
Scott Dignacco
Elizabeth Rooney
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Kastellet, Denmark Windmill Brianna Baldwin
Brugge, Belgium Kaitlyn Rasmus
Miscellaneous
Independent Travel
Copenhagen Windmill Scott Dignacco
Kastellet, Denmark Windmill KJ Ammon
Copenhagen Windmill Matt Poet
Kastellet, Denmark Windmill Emma Hanson
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Rosenborg Castle Copenhagen Austin Lemere
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Magasin du Nord Copenhagen Brianna Baldwin
Frederik’s Church Connor Trout
Munt Torin, Amsterdam KJ Ammon
Gellert Budapest Alan Moreno
Amsterdam, Streetfront Facade KJ Ammon
Miscellaneous
Independent Travel
Amsterdam Canal Austin Lemere
Nyhavn Copenhagen Brianna Baldwin
Brugge Streetfront Emma Hanson
Amsterdam, Streetfront Facade Danny Jarabek
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London Landscape Scott Dignacco
Prague Travis King 44
Millennium Bridge Scott Dignacco
Dancing House, Prague Danny Jarabek
St. Paul’s Cathedral, London Danny Jarabek
Miscellaneous
Independent Travel
Parthenon Cameron Gambrell
St Alban’s Church, Copenhagen Austin Lemere Delphi Landscape Ellie Kutz
Temple of Apollo Elizabeth Rooney 45
Arc de Triomphe, Paris Dana Marie Masters
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St Michael and St Gudula Cathedral, Brussels Left: Brianna Baldwin Right: Emma Hanson
St. Stephen’s Basilica, Budapest Cameron Gambrell
Miscellaneous
Independent Travel
Heroe’s Square Budapest Alan Moreno
Paris Window Detail Allie Glavey
Victoria Tower, London Allie Glavey
St Michael and St Gudula Cathedral, Brussels Rachel Seto
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Scarpa 3D
This Spring of 2020 we worked on an study on the work of Italian architect Carlo Scarpa and develop 3D models in order to understand specific aspects of his work. Part of the exercise included the research, analysis and understanding of seminal projects by the Venetian architect, as well as give more training into the use of digital production tools. The class divided into different groups, research and find drawings, and model parts of each project. Project List: Querini Stampaglia Entrance Sculpture and canal steps Gavina Storefront Brion Cemetery – Tomb
Querini Stampaglia Detail
Scale 1/5
Rachel Seto Brianna Baldwin Kaitlyn Rasmus
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Gavina Shop Scale 1/50
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Brion Cemetery Tomb
Scale 1/50
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Italian Rationalism
Saverio Fera
The purpose of this course is introduce to foreign students to a part of the Italian history of architecture. This history is part of the genealogy of many contemporary Italian architects. The seminar will be based on a series of lectures depicting the Italian architectural environment of the first half of the XX century. A specific bibliography will be given during the lectures. As part of the studies on Modern Italian Architecture (MIA) this semester, students are be requested to produce a poster with a set of accurate representations of axons of some building taken from the Italian production of the Thirties.. The drawings done in b&w, with simple black lines (disegno al tratto) are useful to better understand the projects, from the proportions to the dimensions of the parts that compose them. Thanks to the use of this tool it is possible to analyze in deep the compositional methods implemented by the architects in their projects.
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Design Seminar
Danilo Vespier
The course will be based on a series of lectures with projections of slides, dealing with main topics of the design process focusing primarily within the context of Italy and Europe. Some cases study will be analyzed giving to the students some references and bibliography, lecture by lecture. Students are expected to take a mid-semester test based on topics illustrated during the lectures, the given references and reading assignment. The final exam will consist of a graphic presentation with sections in scale 1:50. To be presented in a latter date. The purpose of this course is to show and analyze different architectural experiences with the intent to highlight different steps and specific aspects of the design process. Project is not just a composition of spaces and volumes, driven only by a personal skill and creativity or a self-referential gesture, but is the result of an articulate multidisciplinary design research, made to respond to different needs and specific contextual situations. Each project has its own “story�, for this reason there are not ready-made solutions for design. Architects need to be critical, always ready to check and revise their own work. They need to be curious, in order to learn and take advantage of all the disciplines that can improve the design process. Architects need finally to be always conscious of their big responsibility for the physical and social impact of their actions.
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Studio Projects
Henrique Houayek Luca Rocco Danilo Vespier Cucina Liguria Food Lab “Pesto speaks Ligurian. Only take a smell, and your ears will pick up the vernacular: it is both harsh and tender at the same time, built from drawled noises, whispered syllables, grim vowels.” Paolo Monera “This green Alchemy is a direct answer to the harsh geography of Genoa’s hinterland, where there is barely any flat ground to grow anything. The history of Genoa kicked off with that search for grain and other products that they simply did not have access to.” Nicholas Walton This semester, the Genoa Studio will research and explore the richness of the traditional Ligurian cuisine in the context of a social and commercial center in the Genova Historical Center. Genova is a city with an incredible historical culture, part of this is due to its culinary cuisine which inherits its flavors from its original fisherman founders to the romans, the renascence bankers and sailors and now a strong hub for family agriculture and slow food. Specifically, the challenge of this semester is for the students to propose a culinary center which aims to bring a new visiting hub to the city. This should include the study and understanding of the significant aspects of the Genovese area cuisine and its relationship with the city, its people and its life:
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Danny Jarabek Matt Poet
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Kara Ammon Emma Hanson
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Kaitlyn Rasmus Rachel Seto
Cucina di Barche a Vela
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Dana Marie Masters Elizabeth Rooney Connor Trout
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Allie Glavey Ellie Kutz
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Alan Moreno Cameron Gambrell
Mercato della Citta Vechia
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Scott Dignacco Travis King
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Austin Lemere Mary Claire Zimmerman
Crescendo sul Mare /Mercato Genovese
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Traveling is vital to oneself’s education because it helps release you from the feelings that your own customs are at the center of the universe. It connects you to a greater sense of the world and a greater sense of purpose as architect and as citizen.
This book has been produced during the Spring 2020 semester by Henrique Houayek, Professor in Residence. It is a sample of the students’ experiences and their work produced while living at the Villa with a selection of hand drawings with multiple medias, as well as the projects developed for Studio. 112
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The Charles E. Daniel Center for Building, Research and Urban Studies was founded in 1972 by Harlan Ewart McLure and Cesare Fera as one of the first architecture programs in the US to establish a satellite program in Europe. Since its creation, the Genova program has served as a home for Clemson University, captivating and inspiring countless architecture students. The program balances studio experience with studies of Italian architecture, contemporary design, urban practices, culture and field sketching. Students spend about a third of the 15-week semester traveling around Italy and Europe. A resident professor from Clemson is assisted by Italian professors who also practice architecture in Genoa. Visiting critics and lecturers from Italy and Europe come to the center on a regular basis to lecture and critique student work. This book was organized by Henrique Houayek, Professor in Residence and presents the work produced during the Spring 2020 semester with particular emphasis on students’ sketches, field studies and studio work.
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