Reading 1

Murray Fraser, “A Two-Fold Movement.”

1 “…. The world of the lake and the river, a typology without history”. Aldo Rossi indicated that he discovered his architecture by investigating the city with all its designed characteristics. In the project of the cabins of fishermen, isn`t this a study of past events occur in the geography and the topography of the design location which is part of the design research?

2- The work of the Shigeru Ban in the temporary cardboard cathedral considered as design research with “R” or “r” where he designed a solution of material and structure by searching and experiments in comparison with “Radical Reconstruction”?

3- What were the design influences of the Koolhaas work of the Netherland Dance Centre, Can we consider the reflections of his publication of the Delirious New York?

 

Reading 2

Jane Rendell, “A Way With Words.”

1- Is the concept and the strategy of the critical spatial practice applied in the education system “design research studio” the same as the practice especially the self-reflection?

2-Is the role of the audience included in the system of multidisciplinary of the research design of the social aspect? What is the educational system of the urban planning in comparison with art and architecture, can we considered as one of the disciplinaries or not?

3- Compare the activity of writing and the description of the spatial qualities of the art and architecture with the Picasso`s expressive concept of the artwork?