Ecole Speciale d'Architecture
254, Boulevard Raspail, 75014 Paris
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Fall semester 2008 : The LONDON PROGRAMME
Paris and London are nowadays so close and similar in certain fundamental ways (size and national role) but quite different in attitude and habit. The River Seine has a very different dimension to the Thames and the role played by ‘locality’ is more ambiguous and complex in London. The architectural community in London is more international and the student there tends to respond to a wider set of parameters and design more thoroughly - and this is what we want you to do in our Studio. We hope also that the drawings of Lim and Woods can act as an inspiration.
The medieval London Bridge carried houses on it and in 1996 the Royal Academy held the exhibition ‘Living Bridges’ in which many projects from known architects, including Zaha Hadid and Future Systems, were shown. The subject offers scope for the exploration of dynamics, structures, form and a way of re-thinking the city.
1 comment:
you have made choices and synthesised some of your ideas into one project and I like he fact you started thinking about it not as a single object but as a system. Now, do all these need to be the same size? Also, try and see Gregoire for the photographs, see if you can take better ones, and perhaps then touch them up on photoshop, maybe put them in context...
caroline
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