framing architectural exploration

The teaching of the architectural humanities at manchester school of architecture is characterised by a balance of traditional and innovative teaching and assessment methods developed from the research expertise of the staff. Since 2006 the medium of film has been used to broadcast undergraduate students’ experience and interpretation of the architectural and urban environment through the use of buildings as case studies. 

 

Following seminars on the history of recent architectural debates and their representation in different media, critical responses to architecture are developed in the time and space of a 5-minute film. These student contributions are Youtube films of buildings visited on study trips principally in major European cities. The 200 plus films so far submitted in this project are discussed at seminars within the cohort. Beyond this teaching function, though, the films continue to attract international interest so far having achieved well over a quarter of a million hits. These new methods of visualizing and presenting the connections of architecture and urbanism introduce the students to the exploratory culture of the post-graduate degree, a basis which is expanded upon in future research.


The limitations of the brevity of the film format are countered by the combination of media which can be composed in the film. Avoiding the seduction of complex editing for its own sake, combinations of film and still images, computer generated models, text, narration, the architect’s testimony or that of the end user and the careful choice of music together provide an augmented architectural experience. The opportunities presented by this mediated exploration include the foregrounding of the experience of architecture over the traditional hegemony of the scholarly text, the placing of the subject building in its context and, therefore, the overcoming of the isolation of the architectural object. 


Monday, 30 April 2007

Steven Holl: Sarphatistraat, Amsterdam


Linked from the Albanian site http://www.archiedu.com
Peruvian comment "Dios esta en los detalles , creo q Steven no lo sabia"
Linked from the Chinese site http://v.backchina.com
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Peter Eisenman: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin


Venezuelan comment "This is a fantastic place to make a video, but this is a cold aproach to the monument, whwere is the music? Where are the deep feelings associate with this place?"
Linked from the Albanian site http://www.archiedu.com
Linked from the Spanish site http://www.videoplayer.es
Linked from the Italian site http://luisacariello.blogspot.com
Linked from the blog http://deputy-dog.com
Linked from the German site http://www.tolongawake.de
U.S Comment ' "Our memorial in Berlin has little or no iconography, nothing symbolic, and it is this absence, like the silence of a psychiatrist , that will allow people come to terms with thier repressed feelings." PE from an architectural record interview.'
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Aldo Rossi: Tiergarten Housing, Berlin


Linked from the Albanian site http://www.archiedu.com
Linked from the Ecuadorean blog http://arquiteorias.blogspot.com
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Jean Nouvel: Galeries Lafayette, Berlin


Linked from the Albanian site http://archiedu.com
Linked from the site http://www.netvibes.com
Linked from the Argentinian site http://arq-lab.vox.com
Linked from the blog http://architecturalvideos.blogspot.com
Linked from the Peruvian site http://lul-lab.blogspot.com/
Linked from the Mexican site http://www.myspace.com/neospazio
Linked from the Spanish site http://www.edgargonzalez.com
Linked from the Uruguayan site http://ante1schelotto.blogspot.com/
Linked from the U.S. site http://www.designboom.com
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Daniel Libeskind: Jewish Museum, Berlin


Linked from the Dutch site http://www.architectenweb.nl
Linked from the Uzbek site http://www.archibase.net
Linked from the Spanish site http://arqhoy.blogspot.com
German comment 'This is your typical self-important propaganda piece, reducing 1700 years of Jewish History on German soil to 12 years of Nazi dictatorship and the Holocaust. Nothing about the parts of the permanent exhibition that show the important contributions that Jews have made to German culture throughout history. Better check out the museum's homepage or Wikipedia's encyclopedic article about this great museum.'
Hong Kong comment 'great!!!!!'
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Ian Simpson: Beetham Tower, Manchester


Linked from the Albanian site http://www.archiedu.com
Mancunian comment "What a blot on the landscape!"
Further Mancunian comment "I live on the 33rd Floor of this building.
Now im worried, This video looks like on of them terrorist videos.
If your going to blow it up please do it on the 23rd March 2008, Im away but the mother in law is looking after the place"
Still further Mancunian comment "I stayed one night on the 9th floor of this tower in January, i am interested in Towers and Poshster, do you have a nice view? I did go up to the 23rd floor once and it was awesome!"
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Steven Holl: Sarphatistraat, Amsterdam


Linked from the site http://architecturalvideos.blogspot.com/
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