Content (Syllabus outline)
• Elements: legibility/spatial perception – basic components of design and composition in architecture and space
• Relationships: ordering of the mutual relations between basic coponents in design and architecture; volume studies; colour studies; lighting studies; materiality, structure, movement, rhythm, proportions
• Meaning: synthesis process of expression in design – translation of ideas into two- and three-dimensional design concepts of architectural elements, architectural and spatial compositions
• Effect: composition methods and theoretical-philosophical basics for in-depth study of the ‘language’ of composition.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
• understand, analyse and design complex forms and spatial compositions
• understand and analyse compositions in (architectural/urban) space
• design compositions applying different approaches (volume studies, colour studies, materiality, movement) and in relation to context
• analyse and design abstract architectural compositions with the use of abstraction
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Communication skills: oral expression in presentations, articulation of ideas through manual and computer drawings of compositions
Use of information technology: use of CAD tools for the analysis and drawing of abstract (architectural) compositions.
Readings
Obvezna literatura
1. Francis D. Ching, 2011. A Visual Dictionary of Architecture, John Wiley & Sons.
2. Francis D. K. Ching, 2007. Architecture: Form, Space, and Order, John Wiley & Sons.
3. Lidwell W., Holden K., Butler J., 2003. Universal Principles of Design, Rockport Publishers.
4. Friedler J., Feierabends P., 1999. Bauhaus, Könemann, Koln.
5. Zevi B., 1959. Pogledi na arhitekturo; Ljubljana : Cankarjeva založba.
Zevi B., 1993. Architecture As Space ; New York : Da Capo Press.
Priporočena literatura
6. Krier R., 1993. Architectural Composition, Rizzoli.
7. Wong W., 1977. The Principles of Three Dimensional Design, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York.
8. Crowe N., 1997. Nature and the Idea of a Man-made World, Cambridge (MA), London; MIT Press.
9. Padovan R., 1999. Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture, London & New York, Spon Press.
10. Lucan, J., 2012. Composition, Non-Composition, London, New York, Routledge.
