Architecture Without Architects - Iwan Baan

Pam Forum Decemeber 2012

World Day of Architecture 2012 - Penang

"copying is both fundamental and dangerous to architecture"

FAT director Sam Jacob explains why he believes that “copying is both fundamental to how architecture develops and something that threatens its foundational belief in originality,” in this movie we filmed at the Venice Architecture Biennale, where the firm has created an installation called The Museum of Copying.

adapted from : http://www.dezeen.com/2012/09/02/copying-is-both-fundamental-and-dangerous-to-architecture-says-sam-jacob-of-fat/

UN studio. Current work

Lecture and Architectural Tour to SS2 Mall

Arcasia Bali 2012

Payment date written is over, not sure u still can register or not.

If any of u interested, may contact PAM directly to know more about it.

a chance to visit bali again !? :]

A little collection of comics

Take a break and read some comics ~ :D

for more comics by Grant Snider : http://www.incidentalcomics.com/

Which is bouba and which is kiki ?

                   

Which of these shapes is bouba and which is kiki?

check whether are u one of the 98% people

who have the same answer

http://www.futilitycloset.com/2011/05/22/the-boubakiki-effect/

for full article http://www.archidose.org/Jun99/061499a.htm

the below is my favourite part of the article.

Peter Zumthor

"Teaching architecture,

Learning architecture"

....... First of all, we must explain that the person standing in front of them is not someone who asks questions whose answers he already knows. Practicing architecture is asking oneself questions, finding one's own answers with the help of the teacher, whittling down, finding solutions. Over and over again.


The strength of a good design lies in ourselves and in our ability to perceive the world with both emotion and reason. A good architectural design is sensuous. A good architectural design is intelligent.


We all experience architecture before we have even heard the word. The roots of architectural understanding lie in our architectural experience: our room, our house, our street, our village, our town, our landscape - we experience them all early on, unconsciously, and we subsequently compare them with the countryside, towns and houses that we experience later on. The roots of our understanding of architecture lie in our childhood, in our youth; they lie in our biography. Students have to learn to work consciously with their personal biographical experiences of architecture. Their allotted tasks are devised to set this process in motion......