{"id":6098,"date":"2017-09-25T14:39:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T13:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/?page_id=6098"},"modified":"2017-09-25T14:39:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T13:39:17","slug":"ba-unit-4-weight-measure-susanne-isa-mark-hatter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/ba-unit-4-weight-measure-susanne-isa-mark-hatter\/","title":{"rendered":"BA Unit 4 :: Weight + Measure :: Susanne Isa + Mark Hatter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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March 23, 1970: Sculptor Claude K. Bell with his 45-foot-tall, 150-foot-long brontosaurus in Cabazon. (John Malmin \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Reflection<\/strong>
\nLast year unit 4 looked at plan B for the Commons with attitudes of the Seaside in mind.<\/p>\n

Forward<\/strong>
\nThis year we will be investigating Weight + Measure, uncovering the unexpected subject for the consideration of new possibilities for architecture. The current preoccupation with measurement focuses on the perceived need to seek increased levels of efficiency through greater standardisation, minimising difference, to reduce unknowns, to mitigate risk in everyday life. This need to quantify, record, and validate, increases the pressure to conform. Unit members will be encouraged to resist this nauseating unconscious drift toward conformity. Students must explore the underlying mechanisms at work and propose counter programmes of the unplanned, the unexpected, the unimagined and uncertainty to make a more imaginative place to live in and interact with, a place for diggers and dreamers.<\/p>\n

The Manual + the Model
\nIn the first 4 weeks, you will be looking at The Whole Earth Catalog, making your selections from or update to create your own access to tools for thought and deployment of your architecture. As in the original catalogue you will have nine sections to make selections for. The model designed will demonstrate\/reveal some of these principles.<\/p>\n

Raum 606<\/strong>
\nAt the heart is a room that defines either The Institute or the Homestead the project for the remainder of the year.<\/p>\n

Site: WonderAcres\/ The Lea Valley<\/p>\n

An area of land the size of Manhattan an Arcadia, 9880 acres of open space, 23 miles long, 00, 2 miles wide, nowhere in the middle of somewhere, Abercrombie\u2019s green corridor extending from the Thames to Hertfordshire.<\/p>\n

Stimulation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Planet \u2013B Ideas for a new World, editors Alain Bieber and Lukas Feireiss The Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand
\nWorld Changing, a user\u2019s guide for the 21st century, published by Abrams Vision der Morderne, Das Princip Konstuktion, published by Prestel Adventures of the Black Square, edited by Iwona Blazwick<\/p>\n

Without and Within, by Mark Pimlott<\/p>\n

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A living model illustrating the principle of the Forth Bridge demonstrated by Mr Benjamin Baker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Gunter\u2019s twenty two yard chain \u2013 a synthesis of two incompatible systems, in whose length can be found the English cricket pitch and the dimension of the city block in the USA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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