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Stan Allen on “Ideas”

10 Studio Rules

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Project 1, 100 Stairs

INTROSFederico Garcia Lammers (Faculty)

Justin Davis (Lead TA)

Alejandro Marin Rodriguez

Cassie Pospishil

Stan AllenExcerpt from Luis M. Mansilla and Emilo Tuñon: From Rules to Constraints.

Edited by Giancarlo Valle.

“The hardest thing to communicate to students is the confidence that you will discover things through the process of working itself.

You don’t have to figure it out beforehand. Maybe it’s lack of confidence or a lack of openness to the process of working, but students have this idea that if they think hard enough, work the idea out in advance, somehow the pieces will magically fall together.

I have two issues with this way of working. First, it’s a complete false way of thinking about ideas, as if they were abstract entities floating out there in a void; ideas are always the product of something concrete—an object or a text, something in the world—and second,

the implied linearity of this process seems to me false: The idea that you could ever go in a straight line from idea to project. There is always a detour, and it’s precisely in the course of the detour that you discover things.

Ironically, setting more rules actually makes the process more open. When you give the students total freedom to explore; they tend to retreat, but when you add more definition there is more opportunity for exploration.”

Syllabus

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transfer of knowledge vs consumption information

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synthesis vs summarySynthesis: the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole.

Summary: covering the main points of an argument or thing succinctly.

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Julio Cortázara. Describes and writes about the mechanics of stairs. Description of mundane acts, not

the metaphorical or allegorical, but literal act of engaging a stair.

b. Like Jorge Luis Borges before him, Cortazar is a proponent for re-reading and re-writ-

ing, as well as, the non-linearity of creative thought. You have not read a book or a piece

of writing until you’ve read it multiple times. Reading as an iterative act.

c. Non-linearity is critical to the development of translation from one piece of work to

another. In the case of Cortazar you can see one of his most well crafted short stories,

Blow Up, turned into a film by the Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni.

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It is / They are

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Rem Koolhaas

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“All idiots”They (architects) always forget to put in the stairs.

Gustave Flaubert

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2R + 1T = 65cm (25.5”)Francois Blondel (1618-1686) is likely to have been the first person to measure the

human step and use it as a base for his formula, which is still being used today.

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VOCABULARYPart of the interest of this studio is to

engage the stairs as more than exit

strategy, to re-program them, and to re-

invest spatial sophistication into their

creation. Learn how to describe stairs.

staircase

stairs

well hole

flight

handrail

landing

baluster

head room

nosing

riser

tread

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“We created stairs, although we did not even need them” Friedrich Mielke.

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Scalalogy Scalalogy is the science of the interactions between humans and stairs, between foot

and step. Since no one could possible climb a stair without having contact with its

steps, an interdependency is created, between the claims made by the living, and the

reflection of such claims by the material.

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Species of Space“We don’t think enough about staircases. Nothing was more beautiful in old houses

than the staircases. Nothing is uglier, colder, more hostile, meaner, in today’s

apartment buildings. We should learn to live more on staircases. But how?”

Georges Perec

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PROJECT 1100 STAIRSProject 1 is intended for students to develop a 1:1 relationship with stairs as an

architectural element. The procedures for portion 1A of this project focus on the

collection of information, cataloging this information and projecting or imagining

stories about this information - transforming this information into forms of knowledge

Project 1A will be organized around a familiar way of making lists in order to produce

unfamiliar ways of seeing the contents of these lists.

In part B of Project 1 pairs of students will be tasked with the 1:1 drawing of one of the

stairs they have studied in part A. The focus of this work is to make a 1:1 inventory of a

series of seminal staircases.

READ THE ENTIRE PROJECT BRIEF VERY CAREFULLY. DO NOT GET AHEAD OF

YOURSELVES. FOLLOW EACH PROCEDURE AND BE PATIENT.

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LISTS“The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does

culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order -- not

always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one

attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through

collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries.”

Umberto Eco, on Lists.

PART 1A: GOALS & OUTCOMES

1. Introduce a wide range of stairs.

2. Collect, list, and categorize images.

3. Understand terms associated with stairs.

4. List and catalogue stairs based on types.

5. Write and imagine events associated with stairs.

6. Discuss the role of the stair according to the critical reading of text.

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LISTS“At first, we think that a list is primitive and typical of very early cultures, which had no

exact concept of the universe and were therefore limited to listing the characteristics

they could name. But, in cultural history, the list has prevailed over and over again. It

is by no means merely an expression of primitive cultures. A very clear image of the

universe existed in the Middle Ages, and there were lists. A new world view based on

astronomy predominated in the Renaissance and the Baroque era. And there were lists.

And the list is certainly prevalent in the postmodern age. It has an irresistible magic -

We like lists because we don’t want to die.”

Umberto Eco, on Lists.

PART 1B: GOALS & OUTCOMES

1. Establish collaborative means of work through 1:1 drawing.

2. Work with material (tape) as an element of drawing and making marks.

3. Introduce proportion, structure, and materiality as part of historic stair precedent.

4. Re-write and imagine events associated with stairs.

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STAIR LISTArch 251 : Fall 2016 : Garcia Lammers / Project 1, 100 Stairs

What Who When Where1 Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut Senmut 1473‐1458 BCE Western Thebes, Egypt2 Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan Unknown Teotihuacanos, discovered by the Aztecs Late 100s CE Mexico State, Mexico3 Scala Regia Vatican Antonio da Sangallo and Gian Lorenzo Bernini Early 1500s Vatican City, Italy4 Laurentian Library Michelangelo Buonarroti 1525 Florence, Italy5 Villa Rotonda Andrea Palladio Early 1550s Vicenza, Italy6 Palazzo Barberini Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1633 Rome, Italy7 Bom Jesus do Monte Andre Soares 1725 Braga, Portugal8 Paris Opera Charles Garnier 1875 Paris, France9 Hotel Tassel Victor Horta 1893 Brussels, Belgium10 Stair Patent Rafael Gustavino 1896 New York, NY, USA11 Coughlin Campanile Perkins and McWayne 1929 Brookings, SD12 Maison de Verre Pierre Chareau, Bernard Bijvoet, Louis Dalbet 1930 Paris, France13 Villa Savoye Central Stair LeCorbusier 1929‐1931 Poissy, France14 Casa Malaparte Adalberto Libera and Adolfo Amitrano 1937 Isle of Capri, Italy15 MIT Baker House Dormitory, exterior stair Alvar Aalto 1948 Cambridge, MA, USA16 Casa Barragan Luis Barragan 1948 Tacubaya, Mexico17 Farnsworth House Mies van der Rohe 1945‐1951 Plano, Illinois, USA18 Yale Museum of Art Louis Kahn 1953 Yale, CT, USA19 Ronchamp du Haut, pulpit stair LeCorbusier 1954 Ronchamp, France20 Crown Hall Mies van der Rohe 1950‐1956 Chicago, Illinois, USA21 Casa en Caxpa Israel Katzman 1956 Mexico City, México22 Olivetti Showroom Carlo Scarpa 1958 Venice, Italy23 Maison du Brésil LeCorbusier 1958 Paris, France24 Itamaraty Palace Oscar Niemeyer 1958 Brasilia, Brazil25 SAS Royal Hotel Lobby Arne Jacobsen 1960 Copenhagen, Denmark26 Museum of Modern Art Affonso Eduardo Reidy 1954‐1960 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil27 Iglesia del Cristo Obrero, bell tower stairs Eladio Dieste 1955‐1960 Atlantida, Uruguay28 Laurin Stair Friedrich Mielke 1962 Mielke Garden, Germany29 Casa Butanta Paulo Mendes da Rocha 1964 Sao Paulo, Brazil30 Danish National Bank Arne Jacobsen 1965 Copenhagen, Denmark31 Maison de la Culture interior stair LeCorbusier 1965 Firminy, France32 Casa Dieste Eladio Dieste 1968 Montevideo, Uruguay33 Art Museum Sao Paulo Lina Bo Bardi 1968 Sao Paulo, Brazil34 Casa en Fuente de Mercurio 40 David Muñoz Suárez 1968 Tecamachalco, Mexico35 Synderman House Michael Graves 1972 Fort Wayne, Indiana36 National Assembly Central Stair Louis Kahn 1962‐1974 Dacca, Bangladesh37 Centre Georges Pompidou Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers 1977 Paris, France38 Stutgart Art Gallery, exterior stair James Sterling 1984 Stuttgart, Germany39 Winter Garden Atrium Stair Cesar Pelli (Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects) 1985 New York, NY, USA40 Forma Furniture Showroom Paulo Mendes da Rocha 1987 Sao Paulo, Brazil41 Hostalets Civic Center Enric Miralles & Carme Pinos 1986‐1992 Barcelona, Spain42 Stadtisches Kunstmuseum Axel Schultes 1992 Bonn, Germany43 Igualada Cemetery Enric Miralles & Carme Pinos 1994 Barcelona, Spain44 Water Glass House Kengo Kuma 1995 Atami City, Japan45 Thermal Baths Peter Zumthor 1996 Vals, Switzerland46 Kunsthaus Bregenz Peter Zumthor 1997 Bregenz, Austria47 Museo Serralves Alvaro Siza 1997 Porto, Portugal48 Kaze‐no‐Oka Crematorium Fumihiko Maki 1997 Nakatsu, Japan49 Yellow House Valerio Olgiati 1999 Flims, Switzerland

50 Jewish Museum Daniel Libeskind 1999 Berlin, Germany51 Saitama Prefectural University Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop 1997‐1999 Koshigaya, Japan52 Prada Epicenter OMA 2001 New York, NY, USA53 Casa Larrain Cecilia Puga 2002 Bahia Azul, Los Vilos, Chile54 Casa del Grande Rafael Iglesia 2002 Santa Fe, Argentina55 Bookcase Staircase Levitate architects 2002 London, U.K. 56 Prada Aoyama Epicenter Herzog and DeMeuron 2003 Tokyo, Japan57 Access to Paseo del Ovalo David Chipperfield 2003 Teruel, Spain58 Crossway Eco arch Hawkes Architecture 2003 Kent, U.K. 59 Braga Stadium Eduardo Souto de Moura 2003 Braga, Portugal60 Fort Greene House, Center Stringer Stair Abelow Sherman Architects and Caliper Studio 2003 Brooklyn, NY, USA61 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Sanaa (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) 2004 Kanazawa, Japan62 Casa das Mudas Paulo David 2004 Madeira, Portugal63 Casa da Musica OMA 2004 Porto, Portugal64 ITT Student Center OMA 2004 Chicago, Illinois, USA65 Casa Marbella Cecilia Puga 2005 Marbella, Chile66 Casa Raigal Marcelo Villafane 2005 Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina67 Seoul National Library OMA 2005 Seoul, South Korea68 Casa Tolo Alvaro Siza 2005 Ribera da Pena, Portugal69 Longchamp Stairs Thomas Heatherwick 2006 New York, NY, USA70 Edificio BIP Alberto Mozó Arquitectura 2006 Santiago, Chile71 Minneapolis Central Library Cesar Pelli (Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects) 2006 Minneapolis, MN, USA72 TRUTEC Building Barkow Leibinger 2006 Seoul, South Korea73 Cooper Union Morphosis Architects 2006 New York, NY, USA74 SOHO Blackened Steel Stairs Ryall Porter Sheridan Architects and Caliper Studio 2006 New York, NY, USA75 Biblioteca Vasconcelos TAX Arquitectos 2007 Mexico City, México76 Kolumba Museum Exterior Stairs Peter Zumthor 2003‐2007 Cologne, Germany77 Indigo Patagonia Hotel Sebastian Irarrazabal 2007 Puerto Natales, Chile78 Ginzan Onsen Fujiya Kengo Kuma 2008 Yamagata, Japan79 1111 Lincoln Road Herzog and DeMeuron 2008 Miami, FL, USA80 AGO Art Gallery of Ontario Gehry Partners 2008 Ontario, Canada81 Maxxi museum Zaha Hadid architects 2009 Rome, Italy82 Lincoln Center Dance Hall Diller Scofidio & Renfro 2010 New York, NY, USA83 Fornarina Giorgio Borruso Design 2010 London, U.K. 84 Magnolia barn Spiral staircase systems 2012 Sussex, U.K.85 Braamcamp Freire CVDB Arquitectos 2012 Braamcamp, Portugal86 Casa Gago Pezo von Ellrichshausen 2011‐2012 San Pedro de la Paz, Chile87 Casa em Moncoa Joao Paulo Laureiro 2013 Moncoa, Portugal88 Highline, entry stair at 14th street Diller Scofidio & Renfro 2009‐2014 New York, NY, USA89 Casa Guna Pezo von Ellrichshausen 2010‐2014 San Pedro de la Paz, Chile90 Blue Pavillion Pezo von Ellrichshausen 2014 London, UK.91 Casa BC 3Arch 2014 La Herradura, Huixquilucan, Mexico92 Museo Pre‐colombino Smiljan Radic 2014 Santiago, Chile93 National Congress Library Beals Lyon Arquitectos 2014 Santiago, Chile94 AME Building, SDSU, east stair Ratio Architects and Persepective Inc. 2014 Brookings, SD95 AME Building, SDSU, west stair Ratio Architects and Persepective Inc. 2014 Brookings, SD96 American Folk Art Museum Tod Williams and Billie Tsien 2001‐2014 Demo. New York, NY, USA97 Correos Chile Plaza de Armas Beals Lyon Arquitectos 2014‐Ongoing Santiago, Chile98 Uva Sol de Oriente EDU 2015 Medellin, Colombia99 Casa L4 Luciano Kruk 2015 Buenos Aires, Argentina100 The Stairs to Kriterion MVRDV 2016 ‐ Temp. Rotterdam, Netherlands