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MAKING & MODELING, SPRING 2014FND 3010, Instructor: Delia Gott [email protected] Thursdays, 7:15PM - 10:15PM, 320 Newbury St., Room 409

PROCESS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN OUTCOME

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CASE STUDY #1

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Vietnam Veterans MemorialMaya Lin, Washington D.C., USA, 1982

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a national memorial in Washington, D.C. It was designed by American architect Maya Lin. Lin’s conception was to create an opening or a wound in the earth to symbolize the gravity of the loss of the soldiers.

The black cut-stone masonry wall, contains the names of 57,661 fallen soldiers carved into its face,. The wall is granite and V-shaped, with one side pointing to the Lincoln Memorial and the other to the Washington Monument

Ira C. Keller ParkLawrence Halprin, Portland, OR, USA, 1970

Keller Fountain Park is a city park in downtown Portland, Oregon. The central feature of the 0.92 acre park is the concrete water fountain. The fountain was designed by Angela Danadjieva using inspiration from waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge located east of Portland.

The fountain’s pools hold 75,000 US gallons (280,000 l; 62,000 imp gal) of water, while the waterfalls pump 13,000 US gallons (49,000 l; 11,000 imp gal) per minute over the cascade.

Teardrop ParkMVVA, Battery Park City, NYC, USA, 2006

Teardrop Park is a public park in downtown Manhattan, in Battery Park City, near the site of the World Trade Center. The shadier southern half of the site is an active play area featuring a long slide, two sand pits, “theatre steps” and a water playground.

The northern half of the park is unprogrammed play space featuring a broad lawn, which is graded to catch the most light from the south, park benches, a small wetland play path, and a perched gathering area.

Plug-In CityArchigram, Unbuilt Concept, 1964

Archigram was an avant-garde architectural group formed in the 1960s that was futurist, antiheroic and pro-consumerist, drawing inspiration from technology in order to create a new reality that was solely expressed through hypothetical projects.

Plug-in-City is a mega-structure with no buildings, just a massive framework into which dwellings in the form of cells or standardised components could be slotted.

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