Designing and representing colours in architecture

Colour is a part of design. Representation is not the final goal, but it’s a tool. Representation, design and colour are strongly linked. As for our experience, managing colour in all its representational opportunities, requires a multidisciplinary approach and therefore we invite students to adopt such an attitude. To achieve this goal, the Department of…

Philadelphia Skyline (c) Michael Tompsett

Design and geography: a matter of time

The following are few considerations arisen during the last Asia Design Forum meeting, at the Architectural Association. The topic was Design and Geography. Architecture and geography should be strictly connected to space, but speakers talked mostly about time. Christopher Lee mentioned Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh project as a perfect matching between traditional Indian features, rooted in…

Learning design | Scaled models

Course of Representation Techniques. Students’ works: designed physical models. Year 2011. The goals of the ‘physical modelling’ seminar, described by Francesco Viroli in his article, can be framed within the wider scope of Architecture Technical Representation 2’s course. In my opinion, representing architecture doesn’t only mean to reproduce shapes and volumes in a different scale ,as…

Learning Graphic design | Editing a digital magazine

Course of Representation Techniques. Students’ works: a digital magazine of architecture. Year 2013. The course’s aim was to introduce the students to the basic concept in designing a digital journal. They have made BIM models of existing building, realising rendering,sketches, and critical comments and than they have collected works in a Journal, using a shared layout.

Learning Graphic design | Editing a printed magazine

Course of Representation Techniques. Students’ works: a printed journal of architecture. Year 2013. The course’s aim was to introduce the students to the basic concept in designing a printed magazine. They have made BIM models of existing building, realising rendering, sketches, and critical comments and than they have collected works in a magazine, using a…

Exhibition stand | Alberti’s Box at Restauro 2011

Art Director, Graphic design, Multimedia Paesaggio Urbano | Urban Design # 2.2011 In the second part of his 1860 work entitled The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Jacob Burckhardt’s talks about “the state as work of art” and he proposes an understanding of Alberti which, although written a long time ago, is still very insightful. The Swiss scholar saw Leon Battista Alberti as…