Billion Dollar Death- the open market & the epitomization of building form

KEY WORDS:  OPEN MARKET / EPITOMIZATION OF BUILT FORM   This thesis is about the epitomization of built form by an open market system, and how the Architect can use this phenomenon to be his opportunity to design, and regain

The R-D-U Tricycle and the Maximization of an Ideology

‘The vibrancy of the housing market can be sustained partly because of the cultural acceptability of a design method based on the “typical block”….The typical block has little in common with the intellectualization of the module in 20th century modernist

Regulations and Freedom

    Let me tell you a wonderful, old joke from Communist times. A guy was sent from East Germany to work in Siberia. He knew his mail would be read by censors, so he told his friends: “Let’s establish

Regulations, Lifestyles and Freedom

Let me tell you a wonderful, old joke from Communist times. A guy was sent from East Germany to work in Siberia. He knew his mail would be read by censors, so he told his friends: “Let’s establish a code.

Calculating the value of a living space

 “I live on 18th floor of a 60-storey-tower. Every day I pass through a podium garden which serves 6 towers of the same type to reach the one I live in. There are 6 elevators serving the tower, 3 going

1: formless ; 2: events and spaces

TOPIC 1: Formless   As computer aided design becomes more and more common among the younger generation, complex form making and construction has been made easier for architects. The process of design is commercialized and generalized in a way that