DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE
- Architecture is the Rhetoric of Building. Rhetoric is not verbal display, but the Art of effective communication, the marriage of FORM & MEANING, of the USEFUL & the BEAUTIFUL.
- Architecture is the material expression of the aspirations, the needs, and the Faculties of the age in which it is created.
- The theory of Architecture provides the link between elementary knowledge and the activity of Design.
- Architecture is the Art of orderly Building. (Orderly meaning everything in its right place)
- Architecture is based upon Design principles and elements and very often they overlap.
- “ARCHITECTURE IS” – Louis Kahn
ACCESSORY DESIGN DEPARTMENT
LESSON PLAN FOR “MATERIAL SKILLS” –
CLASS – I
GIVING AN EXERCISE WITH THE BASIC AIM OF ENHANCING THE “DESIGN SKILLS” OF THE STUDENTS. EXPOSING THE CLASS TO PAPER IN THE BROADEST SENSE OF THE TERM. THIS SESSION WOULD ALLOW THEM TO REACT TO THE MATERIAL – PAPER.
EXERCISE: A VISUAL N MATERIAL BRAINTEASER – ALLOW THE STUDENTS TO COME FORTHWITH MORE INTERPRETATIONS OF THE WORD BLACK N WHITE LIKE:
- EBONY N FROST
- IGNORANCE N COGNIZANCE
- SHALLOW N DEEP ETC.
WHY HISTORY AND THE NEED FOR IT
“History is dominated by the ‘Banal’ and the ‘Trivial’, the ‘Mantra’ of disinterested scholarship and the obsession with data……. Academicians are rewarded for buttressing the ruling structure producing heavy tomes for the ruling elite…….and are complicit in masking the inconvenient facts that tarnish their myth…….through lies and deceit”.