T-Squared: Theories and Tactics in Architecture and Design

280 Pages·2022·400.339 MB·English

by  Samantha Krukowski

T-Squared
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T-Squared
Theories and Tactics in
Architecture and Design
edited by
Samantha Krukowski
Bristol, UK / Chicago, USA
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First published in the UK in 2022 by
Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 3JG, UK
First published in the USA in 2022 by
Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street,
Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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For my mother and maternal grandmother
Marilyn Krukowski (née Denmark) and Julia Fox (née Yablanowitz)
Strong women, survivors
And, for all of the dogs and horses
Rasa, Corvus, Vesper, Søren, Sonja, Oddball, Gryphon, Oscar, Quantico, Alibi
Guides in other languages
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xv
PART 1: STARTING UP 1
1. Front Porch (coffee) 2
Samantha Krukowski
PART 2: THRESHOLD 9
2. In Media Res, or Beginning in the Middle of Things 10
David Leatherbarrow
PART 3: INTERIORS 19
3. Food for Thought 20
Nikole Bouchard
4. Pedagogical Pluralism 44
Alberto de Salvatierra, Samantha Solano, and Joshua Vermillion
5. Informed Forms and Matters 62
Negar Kalantar and Alireza Borhani
6. Out of Control 78
Jennifer Akerman
7. Cultured Drawing 96
Kathryn Strand
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CONTENTS
8. Drawing the City 112
Sandy Litchfield
9. Scripting Space 128
Brian Ambroziak
10. The Literary Imagination 144
Angeliki Sioli and Kristen Kelsch
11. Overcoming Fear 156
Chloé Briggs
12. Horizon Volume and Being 170
Peter P. Goché
13. FACTUM 1: 1 190
Federica Goffi
14. Tendering a Tactile Tectonic: Discovering
and Deploying Architecture’s DNA 204
John M. Reynolds
15. The Mother of Invention 224
Thomas Cline
PART 4: WINDING DOWN 237
16. Deck (bourbon) 238
Samantha Krukowski
Bibliography 242
Notes on the Contributors 254
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Figures
0.1: Structure by Termites. The Original Main Beam (Since xiv
Replaced) from Ella Jean, a Cincinnati Renovation Project
Undertaken by the Editor and Her Partner. Photo by
Samantha Krukowski.
1.1: Gingko Leaves, Fall, Kansas City. Photo by Samantha Krukowski. 2
2.1: Sverre Fehn, Hedmark Museum, Norway, 1980 FaÇade 10
Detail: With and Against Found Objects. Photo by
David Leatherbarrow.
3.1: Morselation Event Analysis, Zak Wosewick. 20
3.2: Labyrinth Event Analysis, Patrick Osowski. 28
3.3: __________to Table Mapping, Patrick Osowski. 31
3.4: Labyrinth Character Description, Patrick Osowski. 33
4.1: Glycerin Notational Models II. 44
4.2: Catalog of Urban Ephemera. 50
4.3: MONSTR drawings. 53
4.4: MONSTR paper models. 54
4.5: Notational mapping. 57
5.1: Sand Formation: Optimizing Certain Design Goals against 62
a Set of Material Constraints (top) and Tesselated Tiles:
Treating the Properties of Plaster as Secondary to the Form
Itself (bottom).
5.2: Linking the Final Form to the Association between 67
Geometry and Material Behavior.
5.3: Sand Formation: Without Using any Formworks, 74
Different Shells Are Made on Sculpted Surfaces Created
via the Sand Formation Process.
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