Cannibalizing two canonical houses, each student designed a single family house in Greenbelt, MD. Each house was conceived of as both a composite and critique of their two canonical houses.
Before starting their design project, each student was tasked with 1) understanding masonry brick veneer construction materially and conceptually and 2) a pair of historic dwellings anchored around themes central to a discussion of domesticity and architecture. Through drawing, diagramming, and modeling, each student took a deep dive into masonry veneer and their two precedents to distill the organizing principles and design gestures before beginning their design work. Exploded axons played a large representational role in this studio. The assigned historic house pairs were as follows:
The Hearth and/vs The Perimeter; Publicity and/vs Privacy (and Context) [Almas]
Robie House, Frank Lloyd Wright
Glass House, Philip Johnson
Motion and/vs Rest; Continuous and/vs Compartmentalized Space [TeLisha]
Schroder House, Gerit Rietveld
Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright
Ornament, Symbol, Meaning; (Gender in Domesticity) [Abigail]
Vana Ventri House, Robert Venturi (and Denise Scott Brown)
Muller House, Adolf Loos
Bodily and Mechanical Conveyance; Relationship with/despite the Ground
Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier
House in Bordeaux, Rem Koolhas
