R E F L E C T I O N S
First of all I have no idea why the year coordinator made us write this piece of sheet. After days and nights doing some work in studios, we have to come out with something that- is it a synthesis or our work?- yelp, during the prepare-for-exams-week. What kind of exploitation is this??
Well. I always remember Erwin said that ‘the limit of my language is the limit of my world’. Someone whom the first language is not English language and has come to study in a very different environment is like Columbus sailing to the Southern America. Well, architecture is like a language. It’s spoken by architects, or people whom you always bump into in the SDE, listened by users of buildings-occupants? dwellers? , and felt by anyone in the world. I think I am in the process of learning this language, now.
To me, to be able to learn architecture is very special. It’s a very fun an exciting process (don’t mention about the amount of coursework!) It’s like a journey of self-discovering and exploration- a journey to know one’s limit and one’s sensuousness. Quite arbitrary, I guess.
Studio, a place where I fully depend on… I think I am blessed with nice and helpful studio mates, whom I had gone through either thick or thin, yet I recognized that the exchange of ideas among peers, are very limited. Probably we will have some more discussions then. The best think about studio, or the course ‘Architecture’ is that we can learn from each other and share our ideas. It is always very special to understand, or at least to be able to get to know how, why, and what other people think. Either from your own tutors or other studios’ mates, I think it’s really intriguing. Part of architecture pushes me to think, in different dimensions, and this is really fun.
Hmm…probably we should have some Philosophy or Fine Arts course. Though this is undoubtedly a harsh course, but I think those courses apart from architecture do help us in coming up with some different architecture languages. When I recall some times Warren tells us something about Modern Architecture or his thoughts or views, they are aspiring moments. More interesting than the AR 1222 lectures..haha.. And only here In the studio I get to learn more-chim-English language, as my fellow studio mates have said-words like ‘notion’ ‘arbitrary’ ‘fenestration’ ‘anthropology’ ‘morphology’ blablabla.. are words which are ‘profound’. Well well.. so this is the architectural language!?!
The zoo assignments some what fostered me to think about sleep qualities, and line weights and so on, more about the coursework and so-called basic conventions. My case study about Rem Koolhaas was totally fresh and challenging to me. I was really glad that I had chosen such a subject which provided me an insight to seeing architecture with more details. The best thing was that you had learnt something, the worse?- was to fail to come up with something that click the panels and yourself. But the panels were right- yeah, this is only the beginning.. I will improve..
I think this is another issue that concerns most of us is ‘this course is really expensive!’ While other students can sell their textbooks next semester for an exchange of value, we really cant sell our costly models..kind of sad..but very self-satisfying to see your models being done. But on the other hand, it’s very demoralizing to be rejected by tutors. So quite contradictory, like it or like it not..
Okay, I guess all of these could sum up into two pages. I hope I can still enjoy my process of learning this new language and be able to speak it. Probably someday we will be able to translate it into our own comprehension. And I do hope that one day I will be able to re-read this writings and come up with a new understanding.
First of all I have no idea why the year coordinator made us write this piece of sheet. After days and nights doing some work in studios, we have to come out with something that- is it a synthesis or our work?- yelp, during the prepare-for-exams-week. What kind of exploitation is this??
Well. I always remember Erwin said that ‘the limit of my language is the limit of my world’. Someone whom the first language is not English language and has come to study in a very different environment is like Columbus sailing to the Southern America. Well, architecture is like a language. It’s spoken by architects, or people whom you always bump into in the SDE, listened by users of buildings-occupants? dwellers? , and felt by anyone in the world. I think I am in the process of learning this language, now.
To me, to be able to learn architecture is very special. It’s a very fun an exciting process (don’t mention about the amount of coursework!) It’s like a journey of self-discovering and exploration- a journey to know one’s limit and one’s sensuousness. Quite arbitrary, I guess.
Studio, a place where I fully depend on… I think I am blessed with nice and helpful studio mates, whom I had gone through either thick or thin, yet I recognized that the exchange of ideas among peers, are very limited. Probably we will have some more discussions then. The best think about studio, or the course ‘Architecture’ is that we can learn from each other and share our ideas. It is always very special to understand, or at least to be able to get to know how, why, and what other people think. Either from your own tutors or other studios’ mates, I think it’s really intriguing. Part of architecture pushes me to think, in different dimensions, and this is really fun.
Hmm…probably we should have some Philosophy or Fine Arts course. Though this is undoubtedly a harsh course, but I think those courses apart from architecture do help us in coming up with some different architecture languages. When I recall some times Warren tells us something about Modern Architecture or his thoughts or views, they are aspiring moments. More interesting than the AR 1222 lectures..haha.. And only here In the studio I get to learn more-chim-English language, as my fellow studio mates have said-words like ‘notion’ ‘arbitrary’ ‘fenestration’ ‘anthropology’ ‘morphology’ blablabla.. are words which are ‘profound’. Well well.. so this is the architectural language!?!
The zoo assignments some what fostered me to think about sleep qualities, and line weights and so on, more about the coursework and so-called basic conventions. My case study about Rem Koolhaas was totally fresh and challenging to me. I was really glad that I had chosen such a subject which provided me an insight to seeing architecture with more details. The best thing was that you had learnt something, the worse?- was to fail to come up with something that click the panels and yourself. But the panels were right- yeah, this is only the beginning.. I will improve..
I think this is another issue that concerns most of us is ‘this course is really expensive!’ While other students can sell their textbooks next semester for an exchange of value, we really cant sell our costly models..kind of sad..but very self-satisfying to see your models being done. But on the other hand, it’s very demoralizing to be rejected by tutors. So quite contradictory, like it or like it not..
Okay, I guess all of these could sum up into two pages. I hope I can still enjoy my process of learning this new language and be able to speak it. Probably someday we will be able to translate it into our own comprehension. And I do hope that one day I will be able to re-read this writings and come up with a new understanding.
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