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Form and Content in Atelier Kempe thill, Lacaton and Vassal, and DOGMA: or Notes on Early 21st century manifestoes on Form and Content for Housing Design

This is the last lecture of this course and this semester. For this lecture we will be looking at three very short texts, written by and for three different architecture offices, and surprisingly, all these offices have two partners. Following are the texts on which we will comment today and from which we will learn about some of the 21st preoccupations about form and content in housing design:…

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Reassessing Form and Content. Session 8: Aldo Rossi

Lineage of the title and the content of The Architecture and the city  Let us begin today’s lecture by linking the title of the book by Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City, which was published in Italian in the year 1966. I have repeated the following points several times in the duration of this course, but I think it is worth repeating the point once again, for clarifications sake. The…

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Reassessing Form and Content. Session 6 and 7: Team 10 and VSDF

Since we are meeting after a gap of two weeks for this lecture, a quick recap would be helpful.  In the first session we saw how different philosophers have discussed the idea of form and content. The discussion of form and content, can also be considered as a broader discussion of the idea of whole and parts and their interaction. One of the technical names for such a study is called mereology,…

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Reassessing Form and Content in Housing Design. Session 4: Metropolisarchitecture

M24, MHD Course, FA, CEPT University About the Book Let us begin by understanding the structure of the book. The book is about 367 pages long and is roughly A5 paper size big, and roughly 1.5 inches thick. The editor of the book have done a great job in producing a wonderful book with its type setting, the cover page, page layouts, and even adding some of the scans from the original manuscript.…

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Reassessing Form and Content in Housing Design: Session 3: Patrick Geddes in India

M24MHD CourseFACEPT UniversityDate: 30th August 2024 About the Author:  What we learn from this book is that Patrick Geddes was born in 1854, in Edinburgh. Geddes was a polymath and also an auto-didact (a person who has the capacity for self learning). He spent time in studying geology, botany, physiology, humanities, sociology, but all on his own terms and interest, without necessarily earning…

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Reassessing Form and Content in Housing Design: Session 2 Towards a New Architecture

M24, MHD Course, FA, CEPT University Date: 23rd August 2024 Author: Le Corbusier Year: French (1923) English (1927)  Publisher: Dover Publications, New York Translator: Frederick Etchells About the book: Some general remarks about the book would be helpful for those reading it carefully. First thing to note is that it is a text written from a place where modern technology was at its…

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Reassessing Form and Content in Housing Design: Session 1

Course: MHD, Monsoon 2024, CEPT UniversityAugust 2024 [These are my lecture notes for the opening session of this course. This is a work in progress text and absolutely unedited. so read it with a pinch of salt. I am trying to create a series of such long notes for most of the lectures this semester. I will try my best to post them as regularly as possible.] The intention of this course is to…

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(de) Coding Mumbai Exhibition at IF.BE, Mumbai. June 2022

As part of SPARE, the research side of sP+a, Mumbai we put together a study of Mumbai’s building regulations and its impact on the production of housing. More information can be found in the links below: IF.BE Covered in The Hindu Worldarchitecture.org Question of Cities Camp

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