Brief

THE COLUMN A MATTER OF ARCHITECTURE

A column is the topic of this studio. Looking for an existing building, taking out a piece of that building and replacing by a column or a multiplication of columns.

Reacting on the location by your personal cut out; understanding that project by reinterpretation through the placing of your own column(s).

Structure as a logic , material as consequence of the making, learning about a structure is learning about architecture.

As studio jo taillieu deals with the idea of the reference - what is your frame of reference, but also the idea of the practice , starting from the detail immediately. The importance of the making , not as a thought after but as a generator from the very beginning.

Observation - rather than analyse - and imagination - rather than concept - are part of this approach.

A strong belief in the variety of media - from handmade drawing to crafted modelling not only as a result but rather as an ongoing method or understanding how detail makes space, how space makes detail or one cannot be without the other one.

The column not as structure but as an architectural element, structure as evidence, evolving and revolving by drawing and model and finding a result in the drawing and the model itself.