Adopt an Architect

Research an architect from the list below, and create a brief (250 word) introduction to the style, history, context, and iconic work he/she is responsible for. Include an image of a particular building that you feel is indicative of their style (explain why). Include URLs from any websites from which you gathered information (wikipedia is only useful as a starting point). Be sure to edit your text for spelling and grammar and post it on this blog by the end of Tuesday March 4th.

Frank Gehry
Tom Dixon
Marcel Wanders
Rem Koolhaas
Frank Lloyd Wright
I.M. Pei
Renzo Piano
Zaha Hadid
Phillippe Starck
Hella Jongerius
Daniel Liebeskind
Will Alsop
Santiago Calatrava
Le Corbusier
Raymond Moriyama
Norman Foster
Moshe Safdie
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron,
Coop Himmelblau
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,
David Adjaye
Jorn Utzon
Buckminster Fuller
Richard Neutra
Minoru Yamasaki

Field Assignments

Choose any one of the field assignments and accomplish one per week. Field assignments are to be submitted by the end of the week. In the event of a shortened week, submit your piece on the following Monday. Most of your tasks can be submitted as photo documentation, or sketches. Objects can be photographed in class as well. Each assignment is marked out of 10 and is broken down as follows: technique 3, communication 4, ingenuity 3

1. Household object spaceship: Make a spaceship using only household and found objects. indiemogul, kristan Horton
2. Fast Furniture: As the title suggests, modify furniture to make it faster.
3. Ben and Ned mini people explore: Small figurines are available to take out and be used as models in specific contexts.
4. Couch Potato/potato couch: Using a potato as material and/or subject, make a couch.
5. New instrument: Create an instrument and demonstrate how it works.
6. Everything is tall:
7. Recycling bullies: Propose a method to compel would-be wasters to recycle.
8. Instruction for a task: create an instruction without words explaining how to do something.
9. Nature:
10. Unlikely Jewelry: create a piece of wearable jewelry out of unlikely materials/processes.
11. Balance is hilarious: create a large temporary structure with household objects balanced on top of one another.
12. 5 dollar shelter: Design a rudimentary shelter using only 5 dollars or less of material.
13. Room 221 is too hot: Propose an environmentally friendly cooling method for this room.
14. Lego:
15. Camouflage: create site-specific camouflage
16. Clean up after yourself:
17. Lawn are so 20^th century: devise an alternative to a lawn at your house
18. Personal traffic patterns: track your movements in a given place over a given period of time.
19. Offset this room: calculate the carbon footprint of this room and propose a method to offset it
20. Cookie cutters: create a cookie cutter of a piece of generic design.
21. PLAYGround: create a set of rules for a new game on the PHS campus.
22. The best paper airplane: Not only a long-flying, but a beautifully-decorated airplane.
23. Map an obscure or personal place:
24. Rant project: Rant about an encounter with architecture, or design that really irks you or amazes you.
25. Superbad – design: Discover and champion a particularly heinous piece of design.

Design Brief: 21st-Century Bike

Greenhouse gasses and SUVs are dominating our skies and roadways. This generation is comprised of smarter and more aware citizens than that. Nevertheless, in Canada, too few people ride bicycles. Some of the limitations of current bicycles are
· limited storage capacity;
· few amenities such as radios etc…;
· conventional aesthetics
· no protection for clothing; i.e. chains etc.

Your company has been given the task to analyse the possibilities of improving the bicycle for the 21st century user. The bike must:
· be compact enough to bring on other forms of transit;
· have a unique look including frame, wheels, paint etc.;
· lightweight, efficient;
· Have options for technological connectivity
· be marketable (clean design and attractive).

You must be prepared to promote your ideas for the bike to investors and clients in the form of a presentation (5-15 minutes in duration), produce a scale model, and write a technical report about the process of developing the bike.

The CEO of the group of companies has established the following deliverables and deadlines:

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